Shared Leadership and Creativity in Teams: Moderating Role of Team Engagement

Complementarity between the traits of the team's leader and members aids in encouraging shared leadership in teams and improving creativity. By employing social learning theory, this research explores the role of shared leadership in promoting creativity in teams. To test our model, we collected data from 300 members of 30 teams. Results revealed that shared leadership is positively associated with team creativity and team autonomy mediates the relationship between shared leadership and team creativity. Moreover, team engagement moderates these relationships. This paper also discusses the theoretical contributions, practical implications and potential future directions of our findings.