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

促进员工的福祉是当今组织的一个重要关注点，特别是在协作越来越依赖技术并涉及虚拟团队的情况下。虽然现有的研究探讨了单个团队中员工的幸福感，但在理解加入多个团队如何影响组织中单个团队成员和团队的体验和整体幸福感方面存在差距。这个项目解决了多个团队成员(MTM)和幸福感之间的关系，这对组织的生产力至关重要。在多个虚拟团队中导航的个人体验到了“背景变化”。换句话说，他们在不同的技术、任务相关和社会心理环境之间移动。这包括使用不同的平台和新兴技术(例如，AI轻推工具)，面临不同的任务要求，以及在团队中体验不同程度的包容性和心理安全。尽管这是一种常见的经历，但之前的研究还没有探索团队环境的变化如何影响个人和整个团队的幸福感，包括积极和消极的结果，如兴奋或倦怠。本研究旨在整合关于团队、管理信息系统和人力资源的学术观点，有助于对MTM动态的更丰富的理论理解。该项目的具体目标是：a)当团队成员同时是多个团队的成员时，了解团队中的技术、任务和社会心理变化如何影响个人和团队的幸福感；b)帮助组织、经理和员工设计支持性的工作场所体验。该项目侧重于多个层面的分析：个人、单一团队和中观层面，中观层面被定义为组织内多个团队之间的界限空间。研究团队采用混合方法，包括访谈以获取知识工作者多个团队成员的生活体验的整体观点并开发理论模型，实验以细粒度地分析技术承受能力，以及调查以确认我们开发的建议的理论模型并更好地捕捉任务和社会心理环境的多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估被认为值得支持。

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.