What team members need from their leaders and how leadership impacts people’s performance

Abstract

The analysis tries to identify the needs of the team members on their working environment in relationship to their leader behaviour and attitude. We try to understand what the members need from their leaders and how those needs affect their performance. We present a literature review which we combine with our quantitative method results. We collected answers of 40 participants from the European Mediterranean countries and we decode those answers based on the existing literature. The analysis indicates four main elements which affects the team performance. Those elements are the feeling of content of the team members, the ability to identify with the leader, the effect of rewards in the workspace and trust towards leader. This analysis argues that if those four elements are provided inside the team it is plausible that the team will enhance performance