Leadership skills and the group performance: Situational demands,behavioral requirements,and planning |
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| Institution: | 1. Consortium of Universities in the Washington DC Area and George Mason University, United States;2. University of Oklahoma, United States;3. U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, United States;1. Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada;2. School of Business Administration (ESG), University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada;1. Oslo School of Management, P.O. Box 1195 Sentrum, 0107 Oslo, Norway;2. UMB School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, 1432 Aas, Norway |
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| Abstract: | In recent years, the role of cognitive skills in shaping leader performance has received more attention. In the present study, the role of one key set of skills, planning skills, was examined with respect to leader emergence and group performance in a sample of 55 groups, containing 195 undergraduates, working on a business planning task. Leader planning skills were assessed along with structuring and considerate behavior under conditions where task complexity, group diversity, and turbulence were examined as potential influences on the need for planning and the need for leaders possessing planning skills. It was found that complexity, diversity, and turbulence influenced the quality and originality of group plans, as well as structuring behavior on the part of leaders. Leader structuring behavior interacted with leader planning skills in determining the quality and originality of group plans. The implications of these findings for understanding the role of planning skills in shaping leader emergence and group performance are discussed. |
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