Lecture Leadership: Theory, application, skill development: Chapter 7 - Robert N. Lussier, Christopher F. Achua

Chapter 7 - Team leadership and self-managed teams. The group perspective showed that followers' behaviors can be the result of factors somewhat independent of the individual characteristics of followers. Group factors that can affect followers' behaviors include group size, stages of group development, roles, norms, and cohesion. Leadership practitioners should use these concepts to better understand followers' behaviors.