Abstract Drawing on Weber’s social stratification theory, this study defines sharing leadership as the leader actively shares wealth, fame and power and also builds its preliminary dimensions. Based on multi-wave and multi-source field data, the study develops a scale of sharing leadership and explores the influence mechanism of sharing leadership on employees’ perceived organizational harmony. The scale contains 2 dimensions including 10 items, of which exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis results show robust reliability and validity. In addition, the empirical results show that sharing leadership has positive influence on employees’ perceived organizational harmony via perceived insider status. In other words, perceived insider status partly mediates the relationship between sharing leadership and employees’ family-like employee-organization relationship, prohibitive voice and workplace well-being.
LONG Lirong,CHEN Xiulin. The Effects of Sharing Leadership on Employees’ Perceived Organizational Harmony and Its Mechanism[J]. Chinese Journal of Management, 2021, 18(2): 213-.
