Manager-Led Teams Research Paper

As described in this week’s learning materials, there are 4 different types of teams. They are:
• Manager-led teams:
• Self-managing or self-regulating teams: those that can monitor and manage their own work processes
• Self-directing or self-designing teams: teams that also have authority to compose the team and shape their own context are termed
• Self-governing teams: those that have authority over all four functions, including the authority to determine their own purposes
The effects of authority and control distributed in each type are illustrated in the attached image. However, in general:
- Manager-led teams: are teams that have authority only for the completion of their own tasks because all authority to exercise leadership belongs to managers. This type of team exists in contexts in which individual team leaders are expected to exert a
Simply put, their varied responsibilities can lead to the underuse or misuse of team design. Their disadvantages are: it is difficult to manage competing demands for attention or to establish conversations in a team of equals. The structure also limits the overuse of authority
- Self-governing teams are teams that convene for their own self-defined purposes and/or who have the authority to define purposes both for themselves and for others. Self-governing teams have authority over their own design, including the membership of the team and the context within which it operates. Teams that hold collective authority over their purposes as well as their composition, context and processes, have significant potential for promoting high levels of collaborative