Three recent research projects conducted by the Centre for Research and Learning in Regional Australia have found that leadership for effective partnerships around learning is a shared process where many people play a part. The most valuable outcome from partnerships where leadership is shared is the increased individual and community capacities to influence their own futures: better community ...

Leaders do not operate in social vacuums, but are imbedded in a web of interpersonal relationships with their teammates and coach. The present manuscript is the first to use social network analysis to provide more insight in the leadership structure within sports teams. Two studies were conducted, including respectively 25 teams (N = 308; Mage = 24.9 years old) and 21 teams (N = 267; Mage = 24....

Earlier research has demonstrated that in a project organization, identity is central leadership vehicle offers useful means for examining and developing shared interests goals among participants. However, little focused on formation maintenance. We the case of large hospital construction used qualitative method to create propositions describing essential activities program management office (P...

A social identity theory of leadership is described that views leadership as a group process generated by social categorization and prototype-based depersonalization processes associated with social identity. Group identification, as self-categorization, constructs an intragroup prototypicality gradient that invests the most prototypical member with the appearance of having influence; the appea...

Research teams face complex leadership and coordination challenges. We propose shared authentic leadership (SAL) as a timely approach to addressing these challenges. Drawing from authentic and functional leadership theories, we posit a multiple mediation model that suggests three mechanisms whereby SAL influences team effectiveness: shared mental models (SMM), team trust, and team coordination....

Administrators in five highly effective elementary schools were studied. These leaders, through acts of will and insight, had given up iconic and heroic leadership status, so that school leadership might be shared. Leadership has a significant effect on student learning. Principals’ influence is often indirect, works through others, and happens best by developing teachers’ efficacy in curriculu...

When employees identify with the groups and organizations they work for, this typically has positive implications for work-related attitudes and behaviors. The present paper provides a focused overview of the social identity approach to leadership and some ideas on its cross-cultural generalizability. To this end, we will first outline the basic tenets of the social identity approach and summar...