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Article: The romance of teams: is the honeymoon over?(Commentary)
- Article from:
- Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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It was back in 1985 that I and colleagues first coined the term 'romance of leadership' to describe a collective commitment to the concept of leadership for understanding organizations and their performance (Meindl, Ehrlich, & Dukerich, 1985). We argued that this commitment is manifested as a causal attribution, entailing a strong inclination to reference leaders and leadership when accounting for the fates and fortunes of groups and organizations. So it is with considerable interest that I now read about the "romance of teams'.
These have been the glory days for the ideology of teams. Teamwork is often the centrepiece of progressive organizational configurations ...