Abstract: Team leadership is distinct from traditional leadership in organization because of the team’s specific contextual characteristics and task requirements. However, the functions of the team leadership are general. This literature review, based on the Functional Leadership Perspective, first explained the functions of team leadership, such as team liaison-information collection and sense making, goal setting, and team coordination-coordinating team members’ actions to achieve team’s goal; the factors determining the importance of each function; and the mechanisms underlining leadership and team effectiveness. Finally the authors indicated some promising field that the research would be conducted

Key words: team, team leadership, functional leadership perspective, team effectiveness