Storm, Christiaan PhilippusScheepers, Caren Brenda2019-07-222019Christiaan Philippus Storm & Caren Brenda Scheepers (2019) The Impact of Perceived Work Complexity and Shared Leadership on Team Performance of IT Employees of South African Firms, Information Systems Management, 36:3, 195-211, DOI: 10.1080/10580530.2019.1620506.1058-0530, (print)1934-8703 (online)10.1080/10580530.2019.1620506http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70773This article investigates how work complexity, as perceived by Information Technology (IT) employees, influences team performance, and examines the role played by shared leadership. The findings of this study that collected data from 204 IT employees in South Africa show that perceived work complexity negatively predicts team performance while shared leadership negatively predicts perceived work complexity and positively predicts team performance.en© 2019 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Information Systems Management, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 195-211, 2019, doi: 10.1080/10580530.2019.1620506. Information Systems Management is available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uism20.Perceived work complexityShared leadershipSoftware developmentTeam performancePersonnelWork complexitySouth Africa (SA)Software engineeringSoftware designInformation technology (IT)Postprint Article