5.2 Behaviours
Based on findings, both task-focused and relationship-focused behaviours are correlated to leadership emergence in study teams. This finding is against Yoo’s (2004) suggestion that relationship-oriented behaviour was not associated with leadership emergence. But there is no evidence to refute his statement that all team members provide socio-emotional support when it is necessary as the results present that non-leaders also show conflict-solving behaviours.
Compared with relationship-oriented behaviours, the task-oriented behaviours are more likely to be perceived by team members regarding potential leadership in study teams. This may because most of study teams are task group and problem-solving group and this to some extent …show more content…
According to results, perceived leader could assume both kinds of behaviours at the same time. For example, a perceived leader encouraged peers to provide solutions to problems facing. This could be explained to some extent by behavioural complexity theory (Denison et al., 1995). Similarly, results suggest that traits and behaviours are correlated. For example, extroversive individual is more likely to have high participation in discussion and to express their …show more content…
However, some respondents agree that demographics, especially cultural background and gender, influence personality and behaviours. Although Yoo and Alavi’(2004) found that demographics have no effect on leadership emergence in virtual teams, the demographic factors they mention does not include gender and ethnicity.
The reason why demographics do not attract much attention of team member might be that personality and behaviour need to be mediator to explain the effect of demographics. People tend to focus on the introversion and conflict-avoiding behaviour rather than Asian culture that may cause this kind of personality and behaviours. Definitely, individual’s personality and behaviour is shaped by multi-elements and demographics are one of
Based on findings, both task-focused and relationship-focused behaviours are correlated to leadership emergence in study teams. This finding is against Yoo’s (2004) suggestion that relationship-oriented behaviour was not associated with leadership emergence. But there is no evidence to refute his statement that all team members provide socio-emotional support when it is necessary as the results present that non-leaders also show conflict-solving behaviours.
Compared with relationship-oriented behaviours, the task-oriented behaviours are more likely to be perceived by team members regarding potential leadership in study teams. This may because most of study teams are task group and problem-solving group and this to some extent …show more content…
According to results, perceived leader could assume both kinds of behaviours at the same time. For example, a perceived leader encouraged peers to provide solutions to problems facing. This could be explained to some extent by behavioural complexity theory (Denison et al., 1995). Similarly, results suggest that traits and behaviours are correlated. For example, extroversive individual is more likely to have high participation in discussion and to express their …show more content…
However, some respondents agree that demographics, especially cultural background and gender, influence personality and behaviours. Although Yoo and Alavi’(2004) found that demographics have no effect on leadership emergence in virtual teams, the demographic factors they mention does not include gender and ethnicity.
The reason why demographics do not attract much attention of team member might be that personality and behaviour need to be mediator to explain the effect of demographics. People tend to focus on the introversion and conflict-avoiding behaviour rather than Asian culture that may cause this kind of personality and behaviours. Definitely, individual’s personality and behaviour is shaped by multi-elements and demographics are one of