Abstract

The leadership behavior of leaders and the followers goes a long way in determining the effective functioning of the teams involved in the production processes. Production processes vary industry to industry and so do the leadership processes involved in them. As Production Engineering incorporates the integration of production technology, engineering sciences with the management sciences, the concept of production processes is pivotal and crucial to it. They basically involve conversion of inputs into outputs in an efficient effective manner. It thus deals with the transformation process and the outputs of it may be some products or / and services. This research paper tries to explain the team members and leaders behavior and it also reports on how these team members show a particular pattern and process in the way they lead, and help each other towards the team and organizational goals. These particular patterns in the IT team production processes are identified by leadership scholars as shared leadership. The Super Leadership and Self Leadership are indispensable part of shared leadership. Finding how are the production processes being led in IT sector in general and what implications do these two very important factors of shared leadership, i.e. super leadership and self leadership, have on the production processes of IT teams in particular is the purpose of this paper?

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