| Title |
Leadership in agile teams and its impact on team performance / |
| Translation of Title |
Lyderystė agile komandose ir jos poveikis komandos veiklos rezultatams. |
| Authors |
Olufuwa, Esther Adefoluke |
| Full Text |
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| Pages |
94 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Servant leadership, Agile teams, Team performance, Collaboration, Innovation, Goal attainment, Adaptability, Team morale, Scrum, Kanban, Leadership behaviours, Empathy, Active listening, Coaching, Psychological safety, Agile methodologies. |
| Abstract [eng] |
The impact of servant leadership on team performance in Agile environment is investigated with leadership behaviours among which are empathy, active listening, and coaching. Agile working methods, Scrum and Kanban in particular, rely on key principles, including self-organisation, continuous improvement and flexibility, meaning that effective leadership is a key element for team success. The aim of the research is to discover whether servant leadership can improve on these principles in terms of encouraging collaboration, innovation, goal attainment, adaptability and team morale. Five Agile professionals from different industries were qualitatively approached using semi structured interviews. Both Agile team leaders and members were participants in order to give a broader outlook of the impact of servant leadership on team performance. The result reveals that servant leadership has a positive relation to team performance because it creates a psychologically safe environment. The results are that the atmosphere allows team members to feel valued and it encourages them to be active, to participate and to be creative. In particular, leadership behaviours like empathy and coaching proved effective in building collaborative environments leading to greater team success. This showed that servant leadership resulted in greater goal alignment and the possibility for teams to adapt to changing project demands while keeping morale high during challenging project cycles. It is concluded that servant leadership fits well with Agile principles, and provides a strong means to enhance team performance. Organisations using Agile methodology need to focus on developing their servant leadership for their teams to perform collaboratively, innovatively, and adaptively. Companies that invest in creating a collaborative and enabling leadership culture not only build better team dynamics but also better project outcomes. |
| Dissertation Institution |
Vilniaus universitetas. |
| Type |
Master thesis |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2025 |
