Leadership Style and Team Effectiveness: A Theoretical and Extant Literature Review

Abstract

The paper examined the effect of leadership style on team effectiveness of administrative employees in tertiary institution using an extant literature review, The paper examined team effectiveness using two specific objectives ,which are to examine the effect of participative leadership on team effectiveness and to ascertain the effect of directive leadership on team effectiveness, The results showed that participative leadership and directive leadership have positive influence on team effectiveness administrative employees of tertiary institutions. The paper concludes that participative and directive leadership styles are very significant concepts in leadership research, strategy development and organisation management, using these leadership Styles is of utmost importance in team situations and team success. The paper recommends that organisations should adopt a relatively new paradigm of leadership in organizations in pursuit of team effectiveness, which embraces the complementary power of both participative and directive leadership, they should perceive these leadership styles as mutually inclusive and convergent instead of divergent ones.