Collaborative Research: Multiple Team Membership (MTM) through Technology: A path towards individual and team wellbeing?

协作研究：通过技术实现多重团队成员 (MTM)：通往个人和团队福祉的道路？

• 批准号: 2345652
• 负责人: Kelly Fadel
• 金额: $ 11.2万
• 依托单位: Utah State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345652&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Multiple; Team; Membership

Promoting the wellbeing of employees is a critical focus in today's organizations, especially as collaboration increasingly relies on technologies and involves virtual teams. While existing research explores the wellbeing of employees in single teams, there's a gap in understanding how being part of multiple teams influences the experiences and overall wellbeing of individual team members and teams in organizations. This project addresses the relationship between multiple team membership (MTM) and wellbeing, crucial for organizational productivity. Individuals navigating multiple virtual teams experience “context variety.” In other words, they move between diverse technological, task-related, and socio-psychological contexts. This includes using different platforms and emerging technologies (e.g., AI nudging tools), facing varying task requirements, and experiencing different levels of inclusion and psychological safety across teams. Despite being a common experience, prior research hasn't explored how team context variety influences individuals’ and the entire team’s wellbeing, including both positive and negative outcomes, such as excitement or burnout. This research aims to integrate scholarly perspectives on teams, management information systems, and human resources, contributing to a richer theoretical understanding of MTM dynamics. The outcomes will contribute to improving workers' wellbeing and fostering inclusive work environments.The specific goals of this project are to: a) understand how technology, task, and socio-psychological variety across teams affect individual and team wellbeing when team members are simultaneously members of multiple teams, and b) to help organizations, managers, and employees design supportive workplace experiences. The project focuses on multiple levels of analyses: the individual, the single team, and the meso-level, which is defined as a liminal space across multiple teams within an organization. The research team relies on a mixed method approach, including interviews to capture a holistic view of the lived experiences of multiple team membership of knowledge workers and develop a theoretical model, experiments to granularly analyze technology affordances, and surveys to confirm the proposed theoretical model we develop and to better capture variety in task and socio-psychological contexts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

促进员工的福祉是当今组织的关注，尤其是当协作越来越依赖技术并涉及虚拟团队时。尽管现有研究探讨了单个团队中员工的福祉，但了解多个团队的一部分如何影响组织中各个团队成员和团队的体验和整体健康状况存在差距。该项目解决了多个团队成员资格（MTM）与福祉之间的关系，这对于组织产品至关重要。浏览多个虚拟团队的个人会体验“背景变化”。换句话说，它们在各种技术，与任务相关的和社会心理学的环境之间移动。这包括使用不同的平台和新兴技术（例如，AI nuding工具），面临着不同的任务要求，并经历了团队之间不同水平的包容性和心理安全性。尽管是共同的经历，但先前的研究并未探讨团队背景多样性如何影响个人和整个团队的福祉，包括积极和负面结果，例如兴奋或倦怠。这项研究旨在将科学的观点整合到团队，管理信息系统和人力资源上，从而有助于对MTM动态的更丰富的理论理解。结果将有助于改善工人的福祉和培养包容性的工作环境。该项目的具体目标是：a）了解当团队成员是多个团队的成员，以及B）以帮助组织，管理人员以及员工的员工设计支持工作场所的工作场所时如何影响个人和团队的福祉。该项目侧重于多个分析：个人，单个团队和中层级别，该级别定义为组织内部多个团队的界限空间。研究团队依靠一种混合方法，包括访谈以捕捉对多个团队成员的现场经验的整体观点，并开发了一种理论模型，实验以颗粒片分析技术提供了提供的技术，并进行调查，以确认我们发展的理论模型，我们开发了我们在任务和社会上的知识范围，并以nsf的旨意促进了nsf的质疑，并以此为基础。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。