The delivery of coherent public services often depends on collaboration across organizations and organizational units, which is challenging and necessitates effective leadership. This article advances our knowledge about the value of leadership training for interorganizational collaboration. In a field experiment, 122 public healthcare managers from 68 organizational units were randomly assigned to a treatment or a control group. The treatment included a 10-month interorganizational team-based leadership training program, which focuses on establishing and sustaining shared direction, alignment, and commitment across organizational boundaries. The results from our analytic approach—including survey responses from the participating managers and more than 3,000 of their subordinates (frontline managers and employees) and 32 interviews before and after training—show that training has positive effects on relational coordination, structural coordination mechanisms, and overall collaborative quality as assessed by the participating managers and their frontline managers. We do not find significant effects among the frontline employees. We discuss our findings in relation to the literature on leadership training, nuances to existing theory, and implications for practice.

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领导力能否改善组织间协作？来自基于团队的领导力培训干预的现场实验证据

提供连贯的公共服务通常取决于组织和组织单位之间的协作，这具有挑战性，并且需要有效的领导。本文加深了我们对领导力培训对于组织间协作的价值的认识。在现场实验中，来自 68 个组织单位的 122 名公共卫生管理人员被随机分配到治疗组或对照组。治疗包括为期 10 个月的基于组织间团队的领导力培训计划，该计划的重点是跨组织边界建立和维持共同的方向、一致性和承诺。我们的分析方法——包括对参与培训的管理者及其3000多名下属（一线管理者和员工）的调查反馈以及培训前后的32次访谈——表明培训对关系协调、结构协调机制和组织绩效产生了积极的影响。由参与的经理及其一线经理评估的整体协作质量。我们没有发现一线员工受到显着影响。我们讨论了与领导力培训文献相关的发现、现有理论的细微差别以及对实践的影响。