Team leaders serves as the steering wheel for a group of individuals who are working towards the same goal for the organization.
Additionally, in a military context, a team leader is the non-commissioned officer in charge of a fireteam.
Scouller (2011) defined the purpose of a leader (including a team leader) as follows: "The purpose of a leader is to make sure there is leadership … to ensure that all four dimensions of leadership are [being addressed].” The four dimensions being: a shared, motivating team purpose or vision or goal, action, progress and results, collective unity or team spirit, and attention to individuals.
This form of leadership stresses a practical approach to the work environment that instills discipline throughout the team or organization.
While managers need to be tolerant and able to create goodwill with the team and perhaps clients, they do not need to be necessarily hard-working, intelligent, or analytical.
[8] Managers also tend to view work as something that warrants either coercion by a reward and punishment system.
Managers lean toward limiting and narrowing the number of solutions available to make sure there is consistency and efficiency.
The result is that followers, or employees, are motivated to work and pursue a common goal held by the leader and the rest of the group.
For managers, relationships are not about creating a great work environment as they are about maintaining a balance of power.
Twice-borns generally have an upbringing that is defined by a struggle to create some sort of order in their lives.
While there will generally be a management group responsible for bigger decisions for the direction of the company or organization, the workers get to develop their own set of values and rules to govern themselves.
This includes task division, problem solving, day-to-day functions, group prioritization, and internal conflict resolution.
[10] In a holacracy people have multiple roles while increasing efficiency, confidence, and communication in the workplace.