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Ali, A, Wang, H, Soomro, M A and Islam, T (2020) Shared Leadership and Team Creativity: Construction Industry Perspective. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(10).

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Construction; Shared leadership; Professional identity salience; Team coordination; Team creativity;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001920
  • Abstract:
    The construction industry is a multiteam continuum, where in addition to the civil engineers, a wide array of experts and tradesmen provide necessary inputs to complete projects on time and schedule. Such essential inputs are provided by the skilled teams working in parallel and along with the civil engineers, but through separate leaders who are usually led by a project manager who is often a civil engineer or an architect. However, it is a growing concern that if such teams are given more autonomy in the form of shared leadership, it can lead to extended team creativity in a construction project. This study attempts to evaluate such an argument. This study also considers a mediating role of “professional identity salience” that highlights the fact that team members realize their specific professional roles in particular teams and then strive for better knowledge and performance. A moderating role of team coordination is then introduced in this study to assess professional identity salience effect to enhance team creativity. The authors collected a time-lagged data set from 84 working teams in construction projects. The analysis showed that professional identity salience positively mediates the link between shared leadership and team creativity. Furthermore, this relationship is also found to be moderated by the level of team coordination. Based on the results, this study explains how, when, and why shared leadership improves creativity in construction project teams. This study aims to help project managers to understand the shared leadership concept and its implementation in construction projects to enhance team creativity.

Cai, S, Ma, Z, Skibniewski, M J and Guo, J (2020) Construction Automation and Robotics: From One-Offs to Follow-Ups Based on Practices of Chinese Construction Companies. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(10).

Chowdhury, S, Zhu, J, Rasoulkhani, K, Mostafavi, A, Jaselskis, E, Stoa, R, Li, Q, Banerjee, S, Alsharef, A and Brannen, L (2020) Guidelines for Robust Adaptation to Environmental Regulations in Infrastructure Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(10).

Hegazy, T, Saad, D A and Mostafa, K (2020) Enhanced Repetitive-Scheduling Computation and Visualization. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(10).

Hong, Y, Tian, Z and Sun, X (2020) Dynamic Evaluation for Compaction Quality of Roller Compacted Concrete based on Reliability Metrics. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(10).

Negash, Y T and Hassan, A M (2020) Construction Project Success under Uncertainty: Interrelations among the External Environment, Intellectual Capital, and Project Attributes. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(10).

Oswald, D and Dainty, A (2020) Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry: A Critical Review. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(10).

Tino Balestra, C E, Alessi Reichert, T, Savaris, G, Pansera, W A and A. Medeiros-Junior, R (2020) Nondestructive Method for Estimation of Chloride Profiles: Correlation between Electrical Resistivity and Holliday-Empirical Equation. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(10).

Zhang, L, Yao, Y and Yiu, T W (2020) Job Burnout of Construction Project Managers: Exploring the Consequences of Regulating Emotions in Workplace. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(10).

Zhu, J, Hertogh, M, Zhang, J, Shi, Q and Sheng, Z (2020) Incentive Mechanisms in Mega Project-Risk Management Considering Owner and Insurance Company as Principals. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(10).