Many organizations are currently implementing self-managing work teams
. Supervision of these teams is particularly challenging in that leade
rs are expected to lead others to lead themselves. Grounded primarily
in the positivistic paradigm of research, a typology of leadership app
roaches is thus developed to explain team leader behaviors and their i
mpact on team self-management. A model incorporating leader and organi
zational characteristics is then presented to illustrate antecedents o
f team leader behavior.