Northouse, Leadership: Theory and Practice, Seventh Edition: Instructor Resource
Chapter 14 – Team Leadership
Questions for Study
1. What is the definition of a team? A virtual team?
2. What are the competitive advantages of team-based organizations?
3. What are the outcomes of effective teams?
4. What does the term “heterarchy” refer to?
5. What are the “critical capabilities” of teams?
6. What is distributed leadership and why has it garnered scholars’ attention?
7. According to Hill, what is the leader’s job in managing a team?
9. Explain how leaders should decide on the best timing of a leadership intervention.
11. Describe the qualities needed to be a competent team member.
13. Explain the four sets of processes influencing the team’s effectiveness.
15. Explain how a team leader could use the Team Leadership Model to make decisions and take
actions.
16. How do the four stages of team development (forming, storming, norming, performing) affect
leadership expectations?
17. What are strengths of team leadership theory?
18. What are criticisms of team leadership theory?