Assessing Shared Leadership: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Team Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire

Shared leadership theory

“…On the one hand, drawing a distinction between the two types of leadership affords the ability to examine each source of influence independently. On the other hand, folding leadership from above into the measurement of shared leadership provides a more parsimonious model, as suggested by Avolio, Sivasubramaniam, Murry, Jung, & Garger (2003). It also reflects the reality of leadership in many workplaces.…”

Transforming an academy through the enactment of collective curriculum leadership

“…As argued by Burns (1996) and Avolio et al (2003), transformational leadership can occur at both the individual and collective levels. While the individual has been the focus of traditional leadership discourses, teams also can act jointly for concern of others.…”

“…While we acknowledge the importance of individual actions within a collective like a school academy, we share Burns' view that leadership is a relational construct that is not embodied in a single individual. Of course this premise underpins a suite of related leadership perspectives or constructs (e.g., democratic, distributed, dispersed, shared leadership), some even being used interchangeably (e.g., distributed and collective leadership-see Avolio et al 2003). While some scholars have invested their energies into distinguishing between particular constructs at a theoretical level (e.g., Woods 2004), our purpose is to study the leadership practices within an actual academy.…”

“…Collective leadership can be defined tentatively as the process by which members of the group or team (or in our case, the SEM academy) create structures that afford the group accomplishing its goals (Avolio et al 2003). This definition is based in part on generalised social exchange theory (Seers et al 2003) first articulated by Lévi-Strauss (1969) and elaborated by Ekeh (1974).…”

Team Transformational Leadership, Trust, Satisfaction, And Commitment: The Testing Of A Structural Equation Model In Software Development Teams

“…Although there are various types and definitions of leadership, leadership typically is a process of social influence for a particular purpose (Barge, 1996).Team transformational leadership is one type of team leadership (Avolio, Jung, Murry, Sivasubramaniam, & Garger, 2003). They state that team leadership can be described as occurring when "all members of the team collectively influence each other toward accomplishing its goals" based upon Team-member exchange (TMX) (Avolio, et Team empowerment has four dimensions: choice, meaningfulness, competence, and process (Kirkman & Rosen, 1997).…”