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Banoeng-Yajubo, Juliet (2020) Shared leadership in work teams : antecedents and outcomes. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Shared is central to the increasing use of intra-organisational teams in the workplace and, although a significant body of literature demonstrates the substantive utility of shared leadership for work team effectiveness, few studies have examined its antecedents, how it is enacted and the boundary conditions for its effectiveness, especially within an extreme performance environment like sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Based on prior research on social network and team leadership research, it is proposed that shared leadership mediates the relationships of internal team factors (i.e., vertical leadership, internal team environment, and team psychological empowerment) and contextual factors (i.e., task, social, and omnibus context) with team innovation and team resilience. These relationships were examined using a convergent multilevel mixed methods research design, involving 47 work teams and 31 external team leaders across four financial services organisations in Ghana, who completed a survey, and attended semi-structured interviews and provided company documents, respectively. Convergent results support the existence and viability of distributed (but not shared) leadership in in SSA work teams, and yield confirming associations of internal team and contextual factors with team innovation and team resilience as might be expected, based on prior research. Based on these findings, it appears that vertical and external team leaders do act as institutional gatekeepers and, through a process of emergent leadership legitimation, determine whether and what form of collectivistic leadership is tenable in work teams. Also, it appears that the confirming predictor and criterion variable associations observed may be masking the countervailing effects of direct social influence and lack of alternative job opportunities in the labour market, both by products of the institutional voids in the SSA context.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Teams in the workplace, Leadership | ||||
Official Date: | July 2020 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Warwick Business School | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Friedrich, Tamara L. ; McGivern, Gerry ; Kiefer, Tina | ||||
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Extent: | xiii, 327 leaves : illustrations (some colour) | ||||
Language: | eng |
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