What facilitates the emergence of shared leadership? The predictive role of team personality composition
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to investigate the predictive role of team personality composition in facilitating shared leadership through team member exchange (TMX), while also to examine the moderating effect of organizational culture.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted a two-stage online survey and selected the customer service teams, claims teams and financial teams of 26 Chinese insurance companies as the research samples. The authors finally obtained validated questionnaires from 107 teams with 457 members. The hypothesized relationships were tested using SPSS 25.0 and Mplus.
Findings
The results indicate that both team relationship-oriented and task-oriented personality composition have significant positive effects on shared leadership with team-member exchange serving as a full mediator for both paths. As a boundary condition, organizational culture (i.e. including internal integration values and external adaptation values) has a moderating effect on the influence of TMX on shared leadership.
Originality/value
The study investigates the predictive role of team personality composition on shared leadership, which complements the empirical studies of shared leadership antecedents in the literature. Drawing on social exchange perspective, the authors find out that TMX serves as a mediator between team personality composition and shared leadership. The authors also identify the moderating effect of organizational culture on the emergence of shared leadership. The research emphasizes the contextual boundary condition in this process.
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Acknowledgements
The first two authors (Xiaolin Ge, Siyuan Liu) shared the first authorship.
Declarations.
Funding: This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71871025).
Conflicts of interest: The authors have no relevant financial or nonfinancial interests to disclose.
Ethical approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Consent to participate: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
Data availability: The data sets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Authors’ contributions: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Xiaolin Ge: Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. Siyuan Liu: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing. Qing Zhang: Writing – review & editing. Haibo Yu: Supervision, Funding acquisition. Xiaoyu Du: Writing – original draft. Shanghao Song: Writing – original draft. Yunsheng Shi: Writing – original draft.
Citation
Ge, X., Liu, S., Zhang, Q., Yu, H., Du, X., Song, S. and Shi, Y. (2024), "What facilitates the emergence of shared leadership? The predictive role of team personality composition", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-07-2023-0315
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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