Article Team-building Competencies, Personal Effectiveness and Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Effect of Transformational Leadership and Technology Sunil Misra 1 Kailash B. L. Srivastava 2 Abstract The study examined the relationship of team-building competencies with personal effectiveness and job satisfaction, and the mediating role of leadership and technology. The data were collected from 307 executives using survey instruments from public and private sector banks across hierarchy. The study was carried out in a confirmatory framework to examine the causal linkage among the variables. The results showed a positive relationship between team-building competencies and outcome variables suggesting that team competencies play a vital role in determining the employee effectiveness and satisfaction. Further, the study shows the emergence of leadership style and technology as mediators in enhancing effectiveness and job satisfaction among employees. The study has implications for the management of banking sector that they need to develop team competencies, follow transformational leadership style and make use of latest information technology to facilitate higher bank performance and greater job satisfaction among employees. Keywords Team competencies, personal effectiveness, job satisfaction, leadership style, technology, organizational effectiveness Introduction Competence is a set of abilities, knowledge and skills which enable an individual to perform a job effectively in a given situation and help in planning, guiding and developing desired performance. Management and Labour Studies 43(1&2) 109–122 © 2018 XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources SAGE Publications sagepub.in/home.nav DOI: 10.1177/0258042X17753178 http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mls 1 Professor, OB/HR Area, Oriental College of Management, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. 2 Professor, OB/HR Area, Department of Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Corresponding author: Kailash B. L. Srivastava, Professor, OB/HR Area, Department of Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. E-mail: kbls@hss.iitkgp.ernet.in