Team Collaboration and Competition - Leadership Issue of Knowledge Management

Houn-Gee Chen

2014

Abstract

Recent research suggests that there are two distinct behavioural components of leadership: 1) those targeted at influencing the group as a whole (group-focused); and 2) those aimed at individual group members (individual-focused). Differentiated individual-focused leadership occurs when leader exhibits varying levels of individual-focused leadership behaviour across different group members. This research examines the unique influences of group-focused empowering leadership and differentiated individual-focused empowering leadership on RandD team’s processes and team effectiveness. Using data from 54 RandD teams, we found that group-focused empowering leadership is strongly related to intra-team collaboration, which in turn substantially benefits both team creativity and performance. Differentiated individual-focused empowering leadership, however, leads to intra-team competition, which is harmful to team creativity.

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Chen H. (2014). Team Collaboration and Competition - Leadership Issue of Knowledge Management . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-050-5, pages 331-338. DOI: 10.5220/0005152203310338


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@conference{kmis14,
author={Houn-Gee Chen},
title={Team Collaboration and Competition - Leadership Issue of Knowledge Management},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={331-338},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005152203310338},
isbn={978-989-758-050-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2014)
TI - Team Collaboration and Competition - Leadership Issue of Knowledge Management
SN - 978-989-758-050-5
AU - Chen H.
PY - 2014
SP - 331
EP - 338
DO - 10.5220/0005152203310338