The impact of team shared vision, team commitment and team collaboration on team effectiveness among nurses in Malaysia: the mediating role of collective leadership and the moderating effect of team virtuality

This study examine the effect of team shared vision, team commitment and team collaboration on the team effectiveness. The collective leadership serve as mediator on the relationship between team shared vision, team commitment, team collaboration and team effectiveness, while team virtuality serve as moderator on the relationship between collective leadership and team effectiveness among the Nurses in Malaysia. Relational Coordination Theory (RCT) and Social Information Processing Theory (SIP). were utilized in developing research framework of this study. The data was collected from 417 registered nurses across twelve general hospital in Malaysia. Descriptive statistics conducted using IBM SPSS, while model assessment was performed using PLS-SEM covering measurement model assessment, structural model assessment and Importance of Performance Matrix Analyses (IPMA). The measurement model was use to assess the reliability and validity of the study constructs, while the structural model examined the relationship among variables. IPMA was employed to identify the most significant factor between team shared vision, team commitment and team collaboration that contributed to collective leadership and team effectiveness. Finding of this study revealed that team shared vision, team commitment and team collaboration have a positive and significant effect on collective leadership. Furthermore, collective leadership significantly mediates the relationship between team collaboration and team effectiveness among nurses in Malaysia. These findings also offered practical implication for healthcare management to monitor the performance, by implementing effective team building, training and reward that can strengthen the collective leadership and overall team effectiveness.