Is participatory leadership conducive to the construction of virtual teams? Based on multi-agent simulation model.

ABSTRACT

In the Post-COVID-19 Era, with the continuous improvement of the technical level, virtual teams are constantly evolving, and the relationship between leadership and the construction of virtual teams has received more and more attention. It is of great significance to explore the influence of participatory leadership on the construction of virtual teams from a psychological perspective by building a multi-agent simulation model. Based on a simulation platform of NetLogo, the results showed that (1) Participatory leadership is conducive to the expansion of the scale of virtual teams by providing greater space for the development of the members of virtual teams and meeting the team members' requirements of planning and promotion in the environment, which is decentralized and non-authoritative. (2) However, losing management is not conducive to building a reasonable structure of team members under participatory leadership. (3) The scale of virtual teams and the efficiency of the virtual teams all depend on the relationship between participatory leadership, organizational trust, incentive mode, and the balance between cooperation and competition.