THE EFFECT OF SHARED LEADERSHIP ON JOB CRAFTING AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING

Abstract

Shared leadership is increasingly important in today’s organizations. One of my goals for this study is to exam the need of and effect of shared leadership in team workplace. One another main purpose is to investigate the relationship and effect between shared leadership and team member’s proactive behavior and extra-role behavior such as job crafting and knowledge sharing, with psychological empowerment tested for the potential mediating effects on the relationship. Research hypotheses were developed and tested using SEM. To test the hypotheses, data were collected from 184 employees, working in teams of organizational in South Korean companies. The results show that shared leadership has positive effect on team members’ job crafting and knowledge sharing, and shared leadership strong promote psychological empowerment, what’s more, psychological empowerment fully mediates the relationship between shared leadership and job crafting and knowledge sharing. The study represents some contributions and managerial implications for organizations to improve the members’ effectiveness among team.