Peculiarities of a Team Leader’s Role Behaviour

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the distribution of roles in a team at work. The efficiency of the distribution of roles in the team ensures the efficiency of activities, reduces the conflict of interaction and increases the level of adaptability of the team to changes in the external environment. The main attention is paid to the team role of a leader, which determines the organization and peculiarities of the team. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to determine the problems of the distribution of team roles and the peculiarities of the leader’s role behaviour. The theories of the distribution of team roles proposed by such authors as R.M. Belbin, R. Schindler, and T. Bazarov were analyzed. Each of the theories was analyzed and their features, possibilities of use for the study of the leader’s roles and problems of application in practice were determined. The main problem is the difficulty with the distribution of team roles in functional divisions (mainly the same types of functions are performed) compared to project teams. By modeling the leader’s behaviour, the influence of his team role on the functioning of the division and the distribution of roles in it was determined. As a result, it was identified that the main problem of determining the distribution of roles in a functional division is a significant shift in the result towards the main type of its activity, which requires clarification or adaptation of the diagnostic apparatus. It is proposed to distinguish a social and labour role that combines functional (labour) and team (social), focusing only on the type of activity. The following types of social and labour roles are distinguished: executive, adaptive and creative. It is proposed to apply the same classification to the leader, which will allow his role to be considered inseparable from the roles of employees, which is especially important for functional divisions. This classification makes it possible to facilitate the process of diagnosing the predominant roles and determine the features of the basic functions of the division and the problems of the team’s activity.