TY - GEN
T1 - Leaders and followers in multi-cultural teams
T2 - 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, IWIC'09
AU - Lisak, Alon
AU - Erez, Miriam
PY - 2009/7/23
Y1 - 2009/7/23
N2 - This study examines the role of leaders and followers in multicultural teams and their effects on team communication, team identity and team effectiveness. Participants were 308 MBA students from 7 countries working in 77 virtual MCTs of 4 members each, one of whom served as the leader. Their task was to prepare guidelines for an expatriate. In addition, participants filled out questionnaires assessing team communication, team identity, team effectiveness, transformational leadership and global identity. The results demonstrated that transformational leadership significantly enhanced team communication, identity and effectiveness only for followers with high levels of global identities, but not for ones with low levels of global identity, with team identity mediating the relationship with team effectiveness and team communication mediating the relationship with team identity.
AB - This study examines the role of leaders and followers in multicultural teams and their effects on team communication, team identity and team effectiveness. Participants were 308 MBA students from 7 countries working in 77 virtual MCTs of 4 members each, one of whom served as the leader. Their task was to prepare guidelines for an expatriate. In addition, participants filled out questionnaires assessing team communication, team identity, team effectiveness, transformational leadership and global identity. The results demonstrated that transformational leadership significantly enhanced team communication, identity and effectiveness only for followers with high levels of global identities, but not for ones with low levels of global identity, with team identity mediating the relationship with team effectiveness and team communication mediating the relationship with team identity.
KW - Communication
KW - Global leadership
KW - Leaders- Followers
KW - MCTs
KW - Team identity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67650696116&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1499224.1499238
DO - 10.1145/1499224.1499238
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67650696116
SN - 9781605585024
T3 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, IWIC'09
SP - 81
EP - 87
BT - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, IWIC'09
Y2 - 20 February 2009 through 21 February 2009
ER -