Senior management

This is mainly based on the fact that top managers have succeeded as individuals which often leads to a focus on functional team objectives rather than to working interdependently on a shared goal.

This also reduces social categorization effects because it leads to team members focusing more on their shared goals than on their differences.

In order to work effectively, the team needs to understand how to communicate, share information, set goals, give feedback, manage conflict, engage in joint planning and task coordination and solve problems collaboratively.

In their research in 2005, Simsek and colleagues[4] found that especially a CEO's collectivistic orientation has a positive influence on team work behavior.

Hambrick divided this concept into three parts: Top managements can face multiple difficulties which mainly derive from their individualistic views and strong opinions.