My research program improves our understanding of how modern teams organize to achieve shared goals. More specifically, how do interdisciplinary and dispersed work environments affect organizing processes across multiple levels, including individuals, teams, and groups of interdependent teams (i.e., multiteam systems)? To answer this question, I explore two fundamental organizing processes: (1) how teams develop collective attention on what matters most and (2) how informal leadership emerges to provide direction when it is otherwise undefined. As teams are embedded within increasingly complex structures, my work assesses the impact of these environments on a team’s ability to coordinate, and it identifies specific practices to help overcome these challenges.
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Megan Chan 