| Abstract [eng] |
There exists a strong and direct relationship between leadership and teamwork. In today’s increasingly knowledge-intensive world, even the most effective leader could run into a hurdle if the team that is being led fails to comprehend the objectives of the organization. Teams require effective leadership where the leader not only makes but motivates and encourages employees for team work. It can be concluded that leadership and teamwork cannot exist without each other. This thesis aims to provide a better understanding how effective teams are formed by using motivational leadership. Leaders play a vital role in identifying what motivates the employees to work in teams and it is their responsibility to use that to bring employees together as an efficient team. The leader must take into account the desires and goals of an individual in order to form and effective team. Teams are formed by different individuals coming together to serve or pursue a common team goal. However, each individual is different and may or may not have the same goals as that of teams. It is during this stage that leaders play an important role in identifying what and how they should motivate individuals to form and work in effective teams. There is an extensive amount of literature covering the motivational leadership approach. This master thesis focuses on motivating factors such as feedback, leadership, cohesiveness, conformity, trust, respect, training & development, social gathering and empowering. The main objective is to identify the existence of these motivating factors within the organization and to bridge the gap between teams and team-members. The findings of the research in the organization were satisfactory in the sense that the majority of the employees were satisfied in their current teams and could easily associate themselves with the motivating factors determining the effectiveness of teams. The author was able to identify the most important motivating factors which supervisors need to be aware of when focusing on forming effective teams. The most important factors are leadership, trust, feedback and social gathering. |
