Withdrawal: How shared leadership affects team performance and satisfaction: Examining competitive mediating mechanisms and moderating effects using meta‐analytic structural equation modeling by Jun‐Hui Zhang and Wei Chen

Abstract

Understanding whether and why shared leadership leads to positive team performance and team satisfaction is of great significance for both scholars and practitioners. Using meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM), the current paper examined a multiple mediation model based on CMA 3.0 and Mplus 8.3 statistical software to provide new insights. Covering 513 independent effect sizes from 334 empirical papers (350 independent studies, N=25,700 group samples), this paper provides support for the mediating effects of team confidence, team trust and team learning behavior in connecting shared leadership with positive team performance and team satisfaction. Notably, while team confidence and team learning behavior better explain why shared leadership affects team performance, team trust tends to account more for the positive shared leadership--team satisfaction link. Moreover, the results of moderation analyses show that in-group collectivism and power distance positively as well as long-term orientation negatively moderate the shared leadership--team performance link. The findings of this study reveal a comprehensive mediating process of the impact of shared leadership on team performance and team satisfaction, identify the primary mediational mechanisms involved in these relationships, and provide additional explanations (i.e., national cultures) for the heterogeneity among different shared leadership--team performance relationships. We discussed the implications of our findings and pointed out several directions for future research.