Shared Leadership and Organizational Resilience: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

For a long time, leadership has been viewed as a 'great man' construct where an individual has the power, qualities, and position to influence others towards the achievement of a given goal or objective. However, that has changed. Heroic leadership can no longer meet the expectations being placed on leadership. Today's organizations are also faced with drastically changing trends and turbulent landscapes. This has emphasized the need for top-notch leadership to guarantee organizational success in an economically globalized context. There is a growing interest in leadership forms that focus more on sharing the responsibility of leadership between different individuals with different capabilities and qualities. One of these forms of leadership is shared leadership. In today's turbulent business environment, an organization's success is determined by its resilience through difficult times. Given that success has been linked to leadership, this systematic review aims to review the extant literature on the link between shared leadership and organizational resilience. The systematic review entailed searching relevant and reliable literature in various databases such as, Emerald, Google Scholar, APA PsycNet, Researchgate, and JSTOR using keywords (shared leadership, organization resilience, relationship, and impact of shared leadership on organizational resilience) primarily through Boolean operators. The initial search resulted in 200 articles, which were filtered using the study's inclusion and exclusion criteria resulting in 43 articles that were reviewed in this study. They culminated into a proposed integrated model appreciating the urgency of shared leadership in today's business environment. The review shows that the connection between shared leadership and organizational resilience has not received a lot of attention, making it a potential area for future studies.

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“…The second set of works may be formed using ones that addresses some specific contexts. Gichuhi (2021) who take into consideration the growing interest in leadership approaches in the existing literature regarding the correlation between shared leadership and organizational resilience. The model presented underscores the diverse contexts in which shared leadership operates, emphasizing not only decision-making processes but also the crucial aspects of transformation and the exploitation of new ideas to bolster a firm's absorptive capacity in anticipation of an uncertain future.…”

Effect of construction project managers’ conflict management styles on team resilience: a moderated mediation model of team followership and team power distance

“…Effective intervention by project managers in conflicts can help teams resolve conflicts, which is crucial to the teams’ solidarity (Adamovic, 2021), and team solidarity is the basis for responding to emergencies (Christensen-Salem et al , 2021). Therefore, this study infers that project manager’s management of team conflicts has a significant relationship with the of construction project team resilience (Dimas et al , 2018; Eliot, 2020; Çop et al , 2021; Mukundi Gichuhi, 2021; Gong and Zaman, 2023). However, existing research mostly focuses on the effect of leadership type on team resilience and ignores the effect of leaders’ specific management capabilities on team resilience.…”

Individual and organizational resilience—Insights from healthcare providers in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…Especially in a crisis, team efficacy has bearing in the ability and motivation of both the team as a whole and each individual team member. Gichuhi (2021) , for instance, emphasized that during a crisis, collaboration is critical to empower and support teams’ efforts to confront the day’s challenges in a constructive way and to maximize team efficacy. In this line, Traylor et al (2021) refer to the importance of collective efficacy for frontline healthcare workers because a lack of experience with COVID-19 might reduce team members’ believe to be successful in treating patients.…”