Abstract
Orientation: Team effectiveness and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) are outcomes vital for team success. Servant leadership practices also play a critical role in team effectiveness and OCB.Research purpose: The goal of the study was to analyse the relationships between servant leadership, OCB and team effectiveness in the South African school system.Motivation for the study: The changing nature of leadership, coupled with the increased use of teams, necessitates a study on how follower-focused leadership practices enhance team member effectiveness.Research approach, design and method: A non-probability sample of 288 teachers was drawn from 38 schools in the Western Cape in South Africa. Item analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted on the data.Main findings: The team effectiveness and refined servant leadership questionnaires displayed high levels of internal consistency. The organisational citizenship behaviour scale exhibited moderate reliability coefficients. Good fit was found for the structural and measurement models of the latent variables through confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. Positive relationships were found between servant leadership, team effectiveness and OCB.Practical/managerial implications: The findings emphasise the role played by servant leadership behaviours in promoting positive behaviours and outcomes for teams. Future studies should develop the theoretical model further, by identifying other variables that influence team effectiveness positively and testing the model using revenue-oriented teams.Contribution/value-add: Schools today face the challenge of developing strategies for achieving team effectiveness. The servant leadership style recognises and promotes the one-on-one development of followers likely to promote positive outcomes and team effectiveness.
Highlights
Organisations increasingly utilise teams in order to increase their competitive advantage, improve productivity, enhance creativity, increase response times and improve decision-making (Afolabi, Adesina & Aigbedion, 2009; Schlechter & Strauss, 2008; Sheng & Tian, 2010; Wong, Tjosvold & Liu, 2009)
The primary goal of the study was to conduct an analysis of the relationships that exist between servant leadership, organisational citizenship behaviour and school team effectiveness
Goodness-of-fit: The measurement and structural models Comparison of the goodness-of-fit indices reported in Table 1 indicates that the structures of the servant leadership questionnaire (SLQ), organisational citizenship behaviour scale (OCBS) and Team effectiveness questionnaire (TEQ) present a satisfactory fit with the data (Hair et al, 2006; Kelloway, 1998)
Summary
Organisations increasingly utilise teams in order to increase their competitive advantage, improve productivity, enhance creativity, increase response times and improve decision-making (Afolabi, Adesina & Aigbedion, 2009; Schlechter & Strauss, 2008; Sheng & Tian, 2010; Wong, Tjosvold & Liu, 2009). It can, be argued that effective team functioning is one of the major determinants of organisational success. One of the leadership approaches that are likely to affect school team effectiveness is servant leadership
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