Leadership Personality and Team Performance Leadership involves overseeing subordinates for the success of the organization. In the past, the role of the subordinate was passive, with leaders viewed as authoritarians. However, since 1980s, organizations have worked to create more participation-based management models that involve employees, welcome their feedback and suggestions and use their perspectives to improve the development of managers (Emery, Calvard & Pierce 2009). Employees are more empowered to take

Team Leadership Issue: Managing Diversity Team Diversity Jackson in his article claims team diversity is the even distribution of personnel attributes among interdependent members of a work unit (Jackson, 2003). The attributes encompass a wide range of issues ranging from gender, culture, and ethnicity, inclusive of skills, experiences, and education obtained by the team members. The diverse traits of the team members can either build or break the entire team in attaining

The evaluation of work performance of employees is a technical process which is comprehensively, systematically and continuously carried out by the immediate superiors. The evaluation is conducted to identify attitudes, job performance and behavior of the employee during the performance of their duties and functions. The evaluation is done at all levels of the organization starting from the top to bottom. One of the most common uses of the performance

In addition, the system-based reasons of functioning are the duties of management to rectify. No quantity of concern or talent in workmanship can conquer fundamental errors in the system. TQM proponents have been swift to censure performance assessment methods which are based on the supposition that the individual employee is chiefly in control of his or her own performance level. (Designing Performance Management Systems for Total Quality Implementation) Hence Deming

People are less apt to blame a leader, more apt to take responsibility for the team when something goes wrong (Hackman 2004). Threats Control over the final decision is not held by a leader but is left to the group, reducing accountability and rewards and thus depriving the organization's leader of carrot-and-stick motivators like individual performance reviews ("Team leadership," 2008, NCREL). Personal conflicts can stymie team performance, and ineffective meetings can act as

Performance Management: Implementing an Effective Performance Management System Why Performance Management? Performance management is the organized method that companies use to monitor the results of work activities, to measure and evaluate the performance of the employees, and to ensure that goals are met in an effective and efficient manner. According to Pulakos (2009), performance management is a key process that ensures that work gets done; and it is used by different organizations