Most contemporary organizations use management teams to manage and
coordinate their businesses at all levels of the organizational
hierarchy. Management teams typically set overall goals, strategies, and
priorities, making vital organizational decisions. They discuss issues,
solve problems, offer advice, and ensure various processes and units are
aligned and interact efficiently. Although management teams are vital
for overall organizational performance, research indicates that they are
largely underused and less effective than their potential would suggest
for value creation.
This book provides a research-based and practical model of the
characteristics of effective management teams. It looks in depth at each
factor of the model, discusses the supporting research, provides
examples of how the factors influence the work and effectiveness of
management teams, and shares tips and tools for successfully working
with management team development.
It provides researchers, academics, and students of organizational
behavior with an overview of the variables that empirical research has
found to be robustly related to management team effectiveness and will
enable leaders and management consultants to develop more effective
management teams.