Promoting Performance and Positive Organizational Environment Through Multiple Team Membership

Recent literature has shown how Multiple Team Membership (MTM) has important effects for managing human capital at different levels of analysis. Yet, despite increasing scholarly attention over the last years, we still have very limited theoretical and empirical understanding of the inherent complexities, challenges, and paradoxes of being on multiple teams at work and of the ways in which MTM influences individuals’, as well as teams’, and organizations' processes and outcomes. Inspired by the Positive Organizational Scholarship perspective, with this symposium, we aim at opening up this black box and shedding light on such complexity by giving answers to a pressing question: how can we design and manage an organizational MTM system that promotes both performance and a positive organizational environment? We address this question by presenting five papers looking at the interplay between MTM, performance, and individual and collective wellbeing at multiple levels of analysis and using multiple methods. Multiple Team Membership: An Enabler of – or Impediment to – Organizational Resilience? Presenter: Valerio Incerti; SKEMA Business School, U. Côte d’Azur (GREDEG) Presenter: Julija Mell; Erasmus U. Rotterdam Presenter: Sujin Jang; INSEAD Presenter: Mark Mortensen; INSEAD Presenter: Enver Yücesan; INSEAD The Effect of Multiple Team Membership on Unit Performance in the Presence of Turnover Trends Presenter: Eean Crawford; U. of Iowa Presenter: Bradley R. Mecham; U. of Iowa Presenter: Thomas Ptashnik; U. of Iowa Presenter: Greg L. Stewart; U. of Iowa Presenter: Michael Montanye; U. of Iowa Managing Multiple Team Membership and Project Lateness in Multi-Team Projects: A Longitudinal Study Presenter: Hise O. Gibson; Harvard Business School Presenter: Ozias Moore; Lehigh U. Presenter: Arthur Middlebrooks; United States Military Academy Identification Residue, Organizational Identification, and Team Engagement during MTM Presenter: Sal Mistry; U. of Delaware Presenter: Jaclyn Ann Margolis; Pepperdine U. Linking Multiple Team Membership and Outcomes: A Multilevel Daily Diary Study Presenter: Kayla D. Finuf; Hofstra U. Presenter: Rebecca Grossman; U. of Central Florida