Shared leadership

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Shared management (Engl. Shared leadership ) refers to the distribution of guidance to different players in the sense that there is one, but several leading not only in a team.

It is an established approach to leadership research . Related concepts, some of which are used synonymously, are collaborative leadership, complementary leadership and distributive leadership.

Definitions

Shared leadership can be defined in different ways, with all definitions describing a similar phenomenon, namely leadership by more than one person or the division of leadership between different participants.

Pearce and Sims define it as leadership that comes from team members, rather than just an appointed leader. Pearce and Conger understand it to be a dynamic, interactive influencing process between individuals and groups with the aim of leading one another, to achieve group or organizational goals, or both. This influence often includes lateral influence, i.e. by peers, hierarchical influence that is upward or downward at other times. Furthermore, shared leadership arises when group members actively and purposefully hand over the role of leader to one another, as required by the environment or the conditions within which the group operates. Hoch and Dulebohn are of the opinion that shared leadership describes collective team leadership by the team members and is characterized by collaborative decision-making and shared responsibility for the results.

As Pearce, Manz and Sims summarize, all definitions of shared leadership involve an influencing process that relies on more than just downward influencing of followers or employees by an appointed leader. In addition, almost all concepts describe the broad distribution of power and influence within a group of individuals and contrast them with the concentration of power and influence in the hands of a single person who takes on the role of the dominant leader.

literature

  • Noshir S. Contractor, Leslie A. DeChurch, Jay Carson, Dorothy R. Carter, Brian Keegan: The topology of collective leadership. In: The Leadership Quarterly. (23), 2012, pp. 994-1011.
  • CL Pearce, HP Sims: Shared leadership - toward a multi-level theory of leadership. In: Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams. 2001, pp. 115-139.
  • Craig L. Pearce, Jay A. Conger (Eds.): Shared Leadership - Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership. Sage 2003.
  • Craig L. Pearce, Julia Elisabeth Hoch, Hans Jeppe Jeppesen, Jürgen Wegge: New Forms of Management - Shared and Distributed Leadership in Organizations. In: Journal of Personnel Psychology. 4/2010, pp. 151-153.
  • Hans-Gerd Ridder, Christina Hohn: Leadership in Teams - Shared Leadership as a Contribution to the Leadership Process. In: Heike Bruch , Stefan Krummaker, Bernd Vogel: Leadership - Best Practices and Trends. 2nd Edition. Springer Gabler, 2012, pp. 157-164.
  • Simon Werther: Shared Leadership - A Paradigm Shift in Leadership Research. Springer Gabler Research, 2013.
  • Brigitte Winkler: Using shared leadership approaches. In: organizational development. 3/2012, pp. 4-6.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael W. Kramer, David A. Crespy: Communicating collaborative leadership. In: The Leadership Quarterly. (22), 2011, pp. 1024-1037.
  2. ↑ Boris Kaehler: Complementary Leadership - A tried and tested model of organizational leadership. Springer Gabler, 2014.
  3. ↑ Craig L. Pearce, Julia Elisabeth Hoch, Hans Jeppe Jeppesen, Jürgen Wegge: New Forms of Management - Shared and Distributed Leadership in Organizations. In: Journal of Personnel Psychology. 4/2010, pp. 151-153.
  4. ↑ Craig L. Pearce, Henry P. Sims: Shared leadership: Toward a multi-level theory of leadership. In: Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams. Volume 7, Emerald Group Publishing, 2000, pp. 115-139.
  5. ^ CL Pearce, JA Conger: Shared leadership: Reframing the hows and whys of leadership. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA 2003, p. 1.
  6. ↑ Craig L. Pearce, Julia Elisabeth Hoch, Hans Jeppe Jeppesen, Jürgen Wegge: New Forms of Management - Shared and Distributed Leadership in Organizations. In: Journal of Personnel Psychology. 4/2010, pp. 151-153.
  7. ^ Julia E. Hoch, James H. Dulebohn: Shared leadership in enterprise resource planning and human resource management system implementation. In: Human Resource Management Review. 1/2013, p. 116.
  8. ↑ CL Pearce, CC Manz, H. R Sims, Jr .: Where Do We Go From Here ?: Is Shared Leadership the Key to Team Success? In: Organizational Dynamics. 38 (3), 2009, pp. 234-238.