The Theoretical And Empirical Study On Shared Leadership In Enterprises

Shared Leadership in enterprises is regarded as one of the critical issues in the fields of Leadership and Management in the 21st century.Shared Leadership is defined as a dynamic interactive collectively-influenced process in which the leadership function needs to be transferred to those members with strengths(e.g. knowledge,skills) according to the working situation to the achievement of team or organizational goals or both.On the basis of literature review,interview and questionnaire survey,this dissertation with six parts takes the initiative to probe into the content structure of Shared Leadership in enterprises and its related issues,based upon 1748 subjects(180 teams) from 18 enterprises.First,exploratory factor analysis(EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis(CFA) are used to test the conceptual model of Shared Leadership constructed with four factors of performance expectation,team learning,mutual coordination and power and responsibilities shared.The reliability and validity of Shared Leadership Questionnaire are highly enough.Second,path analysis is used to reveal the main influence factors of Shared Leadership which are comprised of organizational support,shared belief,team knowledge,demographical heterogeneity and autonomy.The more effects these factors have,the more obvious the effectiveness of Shared Leadership is.Third,hierarchical liner modeling(HLM) is used to test that Shared Leadership can be applied to obviously predict team members' job satisfaction, organizational commitment,organizational commitment behavior,turnover intention and team performance.It turns out that all the influential dimensions have different effects on the outcome variables.Fourth,hierarchical regression analysis is used to test whether Shared Leadership is the mediator between influential factors and outcome variables. Fifth,hierarchical regression analysis is used to test whether task complexity and interdependence are the moderators between Shared Leadership and outcome variables.Sixth,ANOVA is used to test whether the demographical and organizational variables have some significant effects upon the content of Shared Leadership.