Development of a Firm Level Strategic Shared Leadership Scale

The concept of shared leadership at strategic level has been examined in this article. Strategic shared leadership has been defined as the process of two or more leaders based on formal structure and their informal influence shapes strategic decisions of organizations. Data was collected based on structured questionnaire survey of managers and analyzed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. A scale has been developed to operationalize the concept which has five factors: Informal Authority Base, Financial Decision, Future Direction Setting, Open Communication, Organizational Change, and Formality. The factors are made up of items characterizing the shared leadership process based on collective decision-making, informal and formal sharing of roles and responsibilities.