Multiple Team Membership Arrangements: Putting the Worker Front and Center.

There are indicators we are entering a new era for MTM research, by moving beyond the structural approach that has characterized MTM research to date, to focus on important and under-researched issues, such as the nature of employees' experiences in an MTM context. Although team research suggests that the experiences of members impact team functioning, these lines of reasoning have not, until recently, made their way to MTM research. To overcome this limitation, this symposium showcases five papers that use a variety of theoretical perspectives, research designs (i.e., qualitative, quantitative), contexts (e.g., healthcare, automotive manufacturer, online panels), methodologies, and analytical methods (i.e., meta-analysis, content/thematic analysis). The symposium focuses on surfacing and advancing unanswered questions that extend theory and can offer fruitful directions for MTM research by examining critical individual and team level outcomes (e.g., individual/team performance, individual counterproductive and organizational citizenship behavior, individual learning, individual turnover intentions, organizational commitment) in the experiences of MTM employees across their teams (e.g., goals, functions, roles). We hope to provide a forum to advance unanswered questions that offer fruitful directions for MTM research. The Pros and Cons of Multiple Team Membership: Exploring Underlying Mechanisms & the Role of Overlap Author: Rebecca Grossman; U. of Central Florida Leveraging Expertise in Interorganizational Collaboration: Roles of Goal and Expertise Awareness Author: Esther Sackett; Santa Clara U. Keeping the Balls in the Air: Job Crafting in Multiple Team Membership Author: Helene Tenzer; LMU Munich School of Management Examining MTM Time Fracture, Attention, Residue, and Personal Resources in Predicting Performance Author: Manuel J. Vaulont; Northeastern U. Team Memberships, Work-Related Strain, & Performance: An Interdisciplinary Multilevel Meta-Analysis Author: Sal Mistry; U. of Delaware [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]