Making Distance Work: How Supportive Leadership Drives Collaboration in Remote Teams


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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17792983

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Supportive Leadership, Team Collaboration, Remote Work.

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Remote teamwork has shifted from exception to default as work becomes increasingly decoupled from place. Alongside clear efficiencies, distance dampens informal contact and shared situational awareness—two conditions essential to team synergy and coordinated action. Building on contemporary organizational behavior research, this study advances supportive leadership as an actionable antecedent of team collaboration in remote settings. Supportive leaders clarify goals and interdependencies, provide resources and scaffolding, remove obstacles that inflate coordination costs, and recognize contributions in ways that sustain effort over time. Using survey data from 243 remote team members employed by software development firms in Kocaeli’s Informatics Valley, we test whether such behaviors strengthen collaborative norms under conditions of physical dispersion. The analyses support the hypothesis: supportive leadership is positively and meaningfully associated with collaboration in remote teams. Practical implications follow directly: organizations should equip managers with coaching micro-behaviors (explicit expectations, role delineation, rapid feedback), institutionalize communication rhythms that render progress and handoffs visible(briefings, stand-ups, retrospectives), and codify psychological-safety practices (issue-escalation channels, after-action reviews) to deepen trust and elevate discretionary effort.

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