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Meetings as a Facilitator of Multiteam System Functioning

Jordan G. Smith
Michelle L. Flynn
Marissa L. Shuffler
Dorothy R. Carter
Amanda L. Thayer

Managing Meetings in Organizations

ISBN: 978-1-83867-228-7, eISBN: 978-1-83867-227-0

ISSN: 1534-0856

Publication date: 17 March 2020

Abstract

Meetings can serve the important role of facilitating communication and coordination for systems of teams known as “multiteam systems” (MTSs) that work interdependently to achieve grand societal challenges. Given that MTSs often appear in complex, ambiguous, urgent, and multifaceted task contexts, the MTSs require effective, and efficient but thorough, communication within and between teams in order to achieve shared goals. However, the extant literature regarding the science of meetings has left much to be explored in regard to the inter- and intrateam influences and impacts. This chapter considers the significance of meetings and their practical value in facilitating MTS processes and performance by leveraging what is known thus far regarding MTS structural attributes, their value, their challenges, and opportunities, integrating this foundation with the broader science of meetings. Building on this rationale, the authors move toward empirically and theoretically derived considerations for how meetings may best be designed, facilitated and utilized for MTS effectiveness, as guided by our current understanding of critical MTS attributes.

Keywords

  • Multiteam systems
  • Team-of-teams
  • Debriefing
  • Collaboration
  • Intergroup dynamics
  • Complex systems

Citation

Smith, J.G., Flynn, M.L., Shuffler, M.L., Carter, D.R. and Thayer, A.L. (2020), "Meetings as a Facilitator of Multiteam System Functioning", Meinecke, A.L., Allen, J.A. and Lehmann-Willenbrock, N. (Ed.) Managing Meetings in Organizations (Research on Managing Groups and Teams, Vol. 20), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 231-250. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1534-085620200000020017

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