How shared leadership affects team performance: examining sequential mediation model using MASEM
Journal of Managerial Psychology
ISSN: 0268-3946
Article publication date: 20 July 2022
Issue publication date: 16 August 2022
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to reveal a sequential mediating process of the impact of shared leadership on team performance by studying the sequential mediating effect of team trust and team learning behavior.
Design/methodology/approach
This study develops and examines a sequential mediation model using the meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) method. The sample adopted consists of 347 independent effect sizes extracted from 280 empirical papers (288 independent studies, N = 21,888 groups).
Findings
The results indicate that team trust and team learning behavior play a sequential mediating effect in the shared leadership–team performance relationship.
Practical implications
The findings suggest that practitioners should share leadership functions and responsibilities among talented team members. Furthermore, practitioners should strengthen the emotional interaction among team members and give positive feedback to the team's intensive learning behaviors.
Originality/value
By identifying the sequential mediating effect of team trust and team learning behavior, this study not only advances the understandings of a comprehensive mediating process through which shared leadership enhances team performance, but also offers new insights into the interrelationship of different types of mediating mechanisms (i.e. team emergent state and team process) in the shared leadership–team performance relationship.
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Acknowledgements
This paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 72001056), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grants 3072021CFW0913) and the Philosophy and Social Science Project of Heilongjiang Province of China (Grants 20GYB041).
Citation
Chen, W., Zhang, J.-H. and Zhang, Y.-L. (2022), "How shared leadership affects team performance: examining sequential mediation model using MASEM", Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 37 No. 7, pp. 669-682. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-04-2021-0258
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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