Davids, Hylke Bowe (2024) Leader employee working dynamics. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
In today’s competitive organizational environment, understanding and leveraging the mechanisms that can enhance a company’s performance is crucial for its survival. This study examines the relationship between shared leadership and performance, with a particular emphasis on the mediating effect of team potency. The majority of previous studies indicate a positive impact of shared leadership on performance by fostering effective coordination and collaboration. Contradictory, recent studies indicate a negative impact of shared leadership on performance. This study addresses this discrepancy, proposing team potency as a potential mediator, arguing that team potency is a prerequisite for fostering effective coordination and collaboration. This research utilized a multi-sourced cross-sectional field study, collecting data from Dutch companies via questionnaires, forming a sample of 90 leader-employee dyads. The findings reveal that while shared leadership positively affects team potency and team potency on its turn positively influences performance, shared leadership itself shows no positive effects on performance. Moreover, the findings indicate that team potency only fully mediates the relationship between shared leadership and performance, when controlling for the positive effects of experience and education on performance. This study expands our understanding of how shared leadership affects organizational performance, emphasizing the importance of fostering high team potency beliefs. These insights are vital for designing interventions to increase organizational performance by sharing leadership. Future research is needed to further investigate the influence of experience and education on the complex leader-employee dynamics.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Bucur, R.E. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2024 09:49 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Aug 2024 09:49 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4287 |
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