Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: 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.
Authors: Zhike Lei, Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock
Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2486404862