Impact of goal setting and team building competencies on effectiveness

This paper examined the relationship of certain specific managerial competencies of goal setting and team building with organizational effectiveness. The specific managerial competencies of goal setting and team building were taken as independent variables, leadership style as a moderating variable, and organizational effectiveness was treated as a dependent measure. The data were collected from 307 executives belonging to banking sector from West Bengal, and analyzed using correlation, multiple regression, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) technique. The results showed that these managerial competencies had significantly predicted organizational effectiveness indicating their positive association with leadership style and organizational effectiveness. It was also found that the leadership style had significantly moderated the relationship between these competencies and organizational effectiveness. The findings have implications for management that they should closely examine their managerial competencies and leadership style to facilitate high performance among managers.