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20 - Dynamic Affect in Team Meetings

An Interpersonal Construct Embedded in Dynamic Interaction Processes

from Capturing and Understanding Dynamics and Processes of the Meeting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

By
Zhike Lei  and
Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock
Edited by
Joseph A. Allen ,
Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock  and
Steven G. Rogelberg
Joseph A. Allen
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Steven G. Rogelberg
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
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Team meetings are affect-laden environments in which team members may motivate and energize, or frustrate and agitate each other. The importance of affect in teams generally and in team meetings particularly has led to a growing body of research that focuses on group affect. Existing conceptual and empirical work has contributed to our understanding of the nature of group affect and its implications for critical organizational phenomena, including emotion convergence and divergence, emotional contagion, emotional norms, and leadership. In this chapter, we first review contemporary research that has used a compositional approach to group affect. We highlight the need for a dynamic approach to group affect and then make suggestions for future theoretical development and methodological approaches for this important interpersonal, dynamic construct.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science , pp. 456 - 480
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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