The effects of leadership styles on enabling team effectiveness for multiple team memberships

Abstract

ENGLISH : The prevalence of multiple team membership (MTM) in the modern organisation results from the need of an organisation to be efficient with its resources so that the desired efficiency is achieved. This study investigates the effect of leadership styles (transactional, transformational, directive, and laissez-faire) on enabling team effectiveness in the context of MTM. The team effectiveness criteria used are team viability, team processes, and quality of group experience. The data was collected through online questionnaires from 53 individuals in a mining organisation. The results showed a positive relationship between the transactional leadership style and all three criteria of team effectiveness, whereas the directive leadership style indicated a negative relationship with those criteria. Transformational leadership showed a positive impact only on the quality of group experience. Based on the results, it is recommended that transactional leadership styles be adopted for team effectiveness in the context of MTM for similar organisations.AFRIKAANS : Die voorkoms van meervoudige spanlidmaatskap (MTM) in die moderne organisasie spruit uit die behoefte van 'n organisasie om doeltreffend met sy hulpbronne te wees sodat die verlangde doeltreffendheid bereik word. Hierdie studie ondersoek die effek van leierskapstyle (transaksionele, transformasionele, riglyne en laissez-faire) op die aktivering van spandoeltreffendheid in die konteks van MTM. Die spandoeltreffendheidskriteria wat gebruik word, is spanlewensvatbaarheid, spanprosesse en kwaliteit van groepervaring. Die data is deur middel van aanlynvraelyste van 53 individue in 'n mynorganisasie ingesamel. Die resultate het 'n positiewe verband tussen die transaksionele leierskapstyl en al drie kriteria van spandoeltreffendheid getoon, terwyl die riglyne leierskapstyl 'n negatiewe verband met daardie kriteria aangedui het. Transformasieleierskap het slegs 'n positiewe impak op die kwaliteit van groepervaring getoon. Gebaseer op die resultate, word aanbeveel dat transaksionele leierskapstyle vir spandoeltreffendheid in die konteks van MTM vir soortgelyke organisasies aanvaar word.