How Software Development Group Leaders Influence Team Members' Innovative Behavior

Team Leaders and Team Members in Interorganizational Networks

Through the examination of 11 intact interuniversity research project teams, this study examines the relationship between team leaders, team members, their communication networks (represented as structural holes), and performance. The study shows that in the conduct of their work, the team leaders bridged more structural holes than team members. Although team leaders demonstrated a higher level...

Factors in team effectiveness: Cognitive and demographic similarities of software development team members

A B S T R AC T The benefits of teams and teamwork are popular and propounded in management discourse. The use of this lexicon is based on beliefs in the resultant mutual gains for both organizations and individuals. Yet, are all teams, irrespective of the characteristics of membership composition, the same in terms of such beneficial outcomes? This study investigates the importance of team memb...

How Do Leaders Lead? Through Social Influence

How Does the Extraversion of Software Development Teams Influence Team Satisfaction and Software Quality?: A Controlled Experiment

Team member knowledge and expertise are the aspects typically considered important for software team development formation. However, the authors believe that the formation of teams, as is found in literature, could be based on factors related to the personalities of the members of the development team, and that these factors might affect both the quality of the software product developed and th...

Use of Design Methods, Team Leaders' Goal Orientation, and Team Effectiveness: A Follow-Up Study in Software Development Projects

This article reports an empirical study on effectiveness of software development teams. Itwas predicted thatboth the extent to whieh design methods are used and team leaders' goal orientation is related to team effectiveness. Follow-up data (6-12 months after first assessment) were available from 25 German and Swiss software development projeets. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that use...