How does a good leader influence the team performance?
2.0 Literature Review
2.1 Leaders turn visions into successes, said Kahn P. 2003 (Kibort 2004)
Leader with a clear vision will able to lead the team to real a goal. He will not ignore problem, focus on innovation, take risks, and finally build winning team.
2.2 Great leaders have vision, honesty, passion, authenticity, great communication skills, and competencies, stated Shaeffert (Kibort 2004)
Leaders with great leadership skills want to make positive changes and differ from others.
2.3 Emergency leadership mitigates effects of disasters and implements response (Koorosh 2002)
There might be large natural disasters such as earthquake in Turkey in 1999. Leaders with effective leadership will plan for action, prepare to respond, mitigating disaster effects, and respond to the disasters. Leadership qualities and an ability to make rapid decisions on the ground are vital to success.
2.4 Self-leadership influence individuals to self-motivation and self-direction (Hardy 2004)
Not just having a leader in a team, team members’ self-leadership enables to shape one’s performance in a better way. Charles Manz believed that self-leadership is needed for managerial effectiveness. Self-leaders in high-performance organisations look for the natural basic rewards of unpleasant tasks, rather than rely on outward incentives to prompt work satisfaction. Self-leadership practice may change perceptions employees have the leadership and good performance culture within their organisations.
2.5 Leaders improve safety culture of an organisation (Tessier 2006)
Everybody is involved in safety committees and is treated as equals; no matter they are hourly employees, technical personnel, supervision or management. With the concern of leaders, risks can be managed and minimized the employees’ injuries. Leaders are liable for his subordinates, especially their thoughts and feels. There is result showing