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Shared leadership is an interesting theory in the leadership practice at the moment. As a concept it is relatively new-found and due to this there is no consensus about the definition and content. The need of research in this field has been recognized. This bachelor thesis is a systematic literature review. The purpose of this study is to survey the concept and prac-tice of shared leadership. The research questions are 1) how shared leadership is defined as a theoretical concept, 2) in what kind of practices does shared leadership appear in a pro-fessional organization and 3) which kind of practical consequences come out when shared leadership is applied to a professional organization based on the articles? The data was gathered of ten research articles. All articles were in English and they were found from the EBSCOhost database with one exception. The method of analysis was con-tent analysis, which was practically performed by arranging the provided materials in differ-ent colors, based on the research questions. A table was formed from these materials and the synthesis was constructed. For each research question, the results were divided into categories to make it easier to perceive the whole. According to the results, the concept of shared leadership is approached from different per-spectives. The concept was mainly defined in the material either by decentralizing the duties of a director or by working from a teamwork point of view. For shared leadership practices, half of the articles featured some practical application or project that was seen as demon-stration of shared leadership in the organization. Practices often caused embarrassment in organizations that rose from the ambiguity of roles and responsibilities. Positive impacts, such as the distribution of workload or professional development, also occurred almost as often. It was also observed that the organization's power relations and hierarchies may com-plicate the application of shared leadership.

Involvement is a phenomenon that interests the researchers at the moment also in the context of a leadership. Involvement research in the early childhood education is focused on the involvement structures and possibilities of small children. At the moment shortage of the competent teachers and practical nurses and their commitment to the long-term work relationship however brings us back to the basic questions of leadership; how to lead involvement? The theoretical frame of this study is based on contextual model of leadership (Nivala 1999) which sees the early childhood leadership and the early childhood substance inseparable. I also use the theoretical frame of involvement created by Finnish National Institute of Health and Welfare that define involvement as closely related to the intrinsic motivation, possibility to have an affect to your surrounding environment and benevolence. My research task was to find out how early childhood education leaders experience leading involvement. What experiences they had about competence, distributed leadership and challenges that related to the industry? The study was qualitative and was based on phenomenological methodology which reach for the subjective experiences of the individuals. As a data I used the themed focus group interview material that was collected in the Eduleaders project training. Method of analysis was the theory-guided content analysis. In the results competence became a key factor in leading involvement. Leadership competence meant both common leadership skills and the ability to lead early childhood substance. Important were also the professional skills of the working community, teachers and practical nurses and their ability to work autonomously. Leading involvement was also based on functional distributed leadership that called for workable structures as well as the teacher´s competence in leading their teams and distributed pedagogical leadership. Early childhood leaders also saw joint leadership between leader- leader and teacher-teacher as a functional leadership structure in the future that may increase the experiences of deeper involvement. The challenges of leading involvement were the resources related to work as well as the current change in the operational culture, which challenged the definition of job descriptions and the involvement of a multi-professional work community. In the future the leaders hope for more innovative working style, experimentation and autonomy in relation to the mission of the early childhood education.

Tavoitteet: Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää johtamisen, esimiestyön, työyhteisön ja työnjärjestelyn vaikutuksia työntekijän kokemaan henkiseen hyvinvointiin ja stressiin. Aiemmat tutkimukset ovat osoittaneet, että hyvällä johtamisella ja esimiestyöllä on havaittu olevan positiivinen vaikutus työntekijän hyvinvointiin. Työhyvinvointiin vaikuttaa positiivisesti myös aikaisempien tutkimuksien mukaan työyhteisön toimiva sosiaalinen tuki. Työn sisältö ja työn järjestely ovat vallitsevan näkemyksen mukaan keskeisessä asemassa työntekijän henkisen hyvinvoinnin muodostumisessa. Tutkimus tutki työikäisten suomalaisten ihmisten kokemuksia omista työnkuormitustekijöistä sekä henkiseen ja fyysiseen terveyteen vaikuttavista tekijöistä. Menetelmät: Tämän tutkimuksen tutkimusote oli kvantitatiivinen. Aineisto kerättiin vuoden 2019 aikana Heltti Oy:n asiakasyritysten työntekijöiltä. Nämä työntekijät asuvat ja työskentelevät pääasiassa pääkaupunkiseudulla, Tampereen seudulla ja Oulun seudulla. Lomakkeeseen, joka sisälsi työnkuomitustekijöihin sekä työntekijän kapasiteettiin liittyviä kysymyksiä, vastasi 4638 vastaajaa. Vastaukset analysoitiin SPSS 25 – tietokoneohjelmalla. Tutkimusmenetelminä käytettiin korrelaatioita, faktorianalyysiä, ristiintaulukointia ja varianssianalyysiä. Tulokset ja johtopäätökset: Johtamisella, työyhteisön toimivuudella, työn sisällöllä ja työn järjestelyllä on yhteys työntekijän kokemaan henkiseen hyvinvointiin ja stressiin. Työntekijät, joiden kokemusten keskiarvot edellä mainituista teemoista ovat kaikkien vastaajien keskiarvoa alempana kokevat oman psyykkisen terveydentilan huonommaksi, kuin vastaajat, joiden kokemusten keskiarvot edellä mainituista teemoista ovat kaikkien vastaajien keskiarvoa ylempänä.