A diary study on shared leadership, team work engagement, and goal attainment

Abstract

Research on the shared leadership-team effectiveness relationship is mostly based on between-team findings, without accounting for within-team relationships. Following this premise, we utilize a short-term perspective to examine the mediational pathways of day-level shared leadership on team work engagement and goal attainment. To capture these within-team relationships, we conducted a daily-diary study. We collected daily measures from 53 teams with 187 team members resulting in 725 person-days and 207 team-days. The results supported our hypotheses as daily shared leadership was indirectly linked to daily goal attainment by increasing team work engagement over cohesion and conflict management. The findings contribute to the understanding of within-team associations of shared leadership with team motivation and effectiveness. Limitations and directions for further research are then discussed.Keywords:

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