Leadership emergence is a process of perceived influence or deference that results in one person becoming more central in group dynamics. The purpose of the paper is to provide insights regarding an interpretation of process perspective of emergent leadership in students’ task groups. Precisely, we reach to achieve two main objectives in this study. First, to understand the key patterns of behavior associated with leadership emergence process in multicultural task groups in educational context. Second, we investigate the structure of the leadership emergence process and give insights regarding the variations of this process in cases of shared and individual leadership. We use qualitative techniques for an in-depth exploration of this phenomena. A combination of qualitative interviews and non-participant observations helps us to achieve consistency in the data collection and analysis. It gives us realistic and comprehensive results as well as more accurate research process.
The study is focused on students’ teamwork within the walls of educational institution. We use the setting of university to explore the patterns of emergent leadership in multicultural task groups which are the same outside of this setting. The paper will contribute to the knowledge of emergent leadership which is a promising and a developing field. Our study reveals some process-related issues, gives an illustration to the process of emergent leadership and provide a solid ground for a further research.

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