Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science
- The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Contributors
- Book part
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Premeeting Activities and Context
- Part III The Meeting Itself
- Capturing and Understanding Dynamics and Processes of the Meeting
- 12 Meetings as Interactional Achievements
- 13 Multimodal Perspectives on Meeting Interaction
- 14 Toward a Theory of Strategic Meeting Interaction
- 15 Social Dynamics at Work
- 16 Networks in Meetings
- 17 Effective Leader Behaviors in Regularly Held Staff Meetings
- 18 They Meet, They Talk…but Nothing Changes
- 19 Relative Status and Emotion Regulation in Workplace Meetings
- 20 Dynamic Affect in Team Meetings
- Tools and Models for Promoting Meeting Success
- Part IV Special Types of Meetings
- Part V Synthesis and Conclusion
- Book part
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- References
15 - Social Dynamics at Work
Meetings as a Gateway
from Capturing and Understanding Dynamics and Processes of the Meeting
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2015
- The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science
- The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Contributors
- Book part
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Premeeting Activities and Context
- Part III The Meeting Itself
- Capturing and Understanding Dynamics and Processes of the Meeting
- 12 Meetings as Interactional Achievements
- 13 Multimodal Perspectives on Meeting Interaction
- 14 Toward a Theory of Strategic Meeting Interaction
- 15 Social Dynamics at Work
- 16 Networks in Meetings
- 17 Effective Leader Behaviors in Regularly Held Staff Meetings
- 18 They Meet, They Talk…but Nothing Changes
- 19 Relative Status and Emotion Regulation in Workplace Meetings
- 20 Dynamic Affect in Team Meetings
- Tools and Models for Promoting Meeting Success
- Part IV Special Types of Meetings
- Part V Synthesis and Conclusion
- Book part
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
Meetings offer an exciting gateway to dynamic social processes in organizations. During their meeting interactions, employees exchange information, build common ground, create new ideas, manage relationships, and make or break team climate. In this chapter, we highlight the potentials and possibilities for research on dynamic social processes during team meetings. Through the lens of a meetings researcher, we discuss how to address research questions and methodological issues in studying meeting interaction processes. By focusing on the observable behavioral conduct of meeting participants (i.e., their verbal communication), we show how micro-level interaction processes, emergent patterns, and the dynamics of social influence throughout a meeting can be revealed. The chapter includes a how-to guideline for researchers and practitioners interested in carrying out interaction analysis in team meetings. We illustrate our reasoning by providing data from a sample of 24 videotaped team meetings. Finally, we discuss limitations of behavioral research in team meetings. The chapter closes with a summary and future research questions in the area of dynamic social processes in organizational meetings.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science , pp. 325 - 356Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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