Abstract
Virtual teams play a crucial role in today’s knowledge-based organisation for overcoming challenges in our dynamic world, especially in the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Teams play a key role in today’s knowledge-based organization for overcoming challenges in our dynamic world. Drawing on social information processing theory, this study explores the effect of members’ humility and team environment within a leaderless team mainly based on virtual platforms. Their impacts on shared leadership, relationship conflict and team and individual performance were investigated. Surveying 219 students forming 61 virtual leaderless teams, our findings showed that a high level of humility and a positive team environment can help to improve shared leadership within a team, which contributes to team performance. Moreover, both humility and team environment have a negative relationship with relationship conflict, which depressed both team and individual performance. Our analysis also indicated that humility positively interacts with team environment on shared leadership.
Highlights
The coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) has spread across the world and caused unprecedented challenges to global economic (Anthony Jnr & Abbas Petersen, 2020; García-Vidal, 2020)
Our findings indicate both team environment (TE) and humility (H) are significant factors to the development of shared leadership (SL)
Due to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic, people are working from home as the virtual team members to collaborate in organisations
Summary
The coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) has spread across the world and caused unprecedented challenges to global economic (Anthony Jnr & Abbas Petersen, 2020; García-Vidal, 2020). Due to the government-enforced lockdowns for preventive measures, people need to stay at home and shift their working environment from face-to-face to virtual (Waizenegger et al, 2020; Feitosa & Salas, 2020). In order to deal with turbulent and competitive environments of COVID-19 situation, organisations are more predominantly relying on a virtual team rather than physical teams to solve complicated business problems.
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