Team reward interdependence and team performance: roles of shared leadership and psychological ownership
ISSN: 0048-3486
Article publication date: 11 June 2021
Issue publication date: 30 May 2022
Abstract
Purpose
Drawing on the motivated information processing in groups (MIP-G) model, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between team reward interdependence and team performance, treating shared leadership as a mediator and team average job-based psychological ownership as a moderator.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected from a field sample of 72 knowledge-based work teams comprised of 466 team members and their team leaders. Data were analysed using hierarchical regression analysis and moderated path analysis.
Findings
Team reward interdependence was positively related to team performance through shared leadership. Team average job-based psychological ownership moderated both the relationship between team reward interdependence and shared leadership, and the indirect relationship between team reward interdependence and team performance.
Research limitations/implications
The shared leadership literature is extended by exploring the antecedents of shared leadership from the perspective of team incentives and by examining the moderating role of team average job-based psychological ownership.
Practical implications
Organizations and managers should pay attention to team pay system design and be aware of the importance of employees’ psychological ownership toward their jobs in promoting shared leadership in teams.
Originality/value
This study sheds light on the antecedents of shared leadership from motivated information processing perspective and examines antecedent boundary conditions through the moderating role of team average job-based psychological ownership.
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Acknowledgements
This study was supported by a grant awarded to Qinxuan Gu, funded by National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 17 ZD A057).
Citation
Gu, Q., Hu, D. and Hempel, P. (2022), "Team reward interdependence and team performance: roles of shared leadership and psychological ownership", Personnel Review, Vol. 51 No. 5, pp. 1518-1533. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-06-2020-0403
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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