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The described research project focuses on the development and validation of a measurement scale for situational shared leadership in for-profit organizations. Although shared leadership has received increasing attention in the literature, most existing measures remain underdeveloped, with limited or no evidence of rigorous validation. In many cases, researchers rely on single-item scales, which fail to capture the functional and multidimensional nature of leadership—that is, how leadership roles, power, and responsibilities are distributed across team members. This lack of robust measurement tools hampers both theoretical advancement and practical application. The purpose of this project is therefore to develop a psychometrically sound and theoretically grounded scale that can reliably assess the magnitude of situational shared leadership in real organizational contexts. The specific steps of the scale’s development and validation will be systematically outlined in this protocol.