Performance and leadership style: when do leaders and followers disagree?
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Purpose: The goal of this research is to analyze how team performance
is influenced by leadership styles in the public sector, confronting the
perspectives of the leaders with the perception of their teams.
Originality/gap/relevance/implications: The main contribution of this
study is to compare the perspectives of leaders and followers in the
same context. Furthermore, this research investigates the relationship
between team performance and style of leadership in the public sector.
This research offers empirical data that can support the development of
human resources policies and practices directed at improving leadership
and reduce the gap between leaders and followers.
Key methodological aspects: The survey method was used to collect data
in the Executive Branch of State of Minas Gerais, which was answered
by 315 individuals. We applied standardized questionnaires based on
well tested instruments available in the literature.
Summary of key results: The results indicate that leaders feel that team
performance is directly influenced by transformational leadership,
supporting the literature. For the followers, the level of team perfor-
mance is directly influenced by the transactional characteristics of the
leaders and not transformational characteristics. The results also suggest
that the performance evaluation run by the government might be over-
valued, since leaders and non-leader employees think that their own
team performance is lower than the officially measured performance.
Key considerations/conclusions: The idiosyncratic dynamics of people
management of the Executive Branch of Minas Gerais reinforce beha-
viors that require leaders to use transactional leadership style. However,
when managers achieve upper levels, the transformational style seems
to be better suited to improve the other managers’ performance.
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Leadership, Leadership styles, Performance, Team performance, People management
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https://www.scielo.br/j/ram/a/H8RzQYTTwQGkMhs7LyW3Z8y/?format=pdf&lang=en