An Exploratory Research on the Behavioral Process and Contents of Corporate Managers to Foster Shared Leadership of Their Jurisdictional Teams

Abstract

In this study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with managers of corporations who were perceived by others fostering shared leadership among their jurisdiction teams. The purpose of this study was to understand the process and contents of their behaviors to foster shared leadership. The results were analyzed by M-GTA. Results show that the process by which managers fostering shared leadership among their teams was as follows: Ⅰ . Placemaking phase, Ⅱ . Initiation phase for fostering shared leadership, Ⅲ . Acceleration phase for fostering shared leadership. Regarding the contents of the behaviors, in addition to the behaviors corresponding to the leadership behaviors of the formal leader, which have been shown as antecedents of shared leadership in previous studies, new behaviors were found. Those were behaviors directed toward managers themselves and behaviors related to fostering psychological safety in teams. It was also revealed that some of the leadership behaviors in these phases were demonstrated only by managers, while others were encouraged toward team members to demonstrate same as managers.