The
Management Department
Department
Seminar Series
LESLIE DE CHURCH
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Tuesday, October 17th
2017
Room LE
CLUB at
10:00 am
(4.00
p.m
in Singapore)
Theme: “Social
Media and their Affordances for Effective Teamwork”
Abstract: "Teams are changing, technologies
are changing, and both of these shifts are outpacing the theoretical advances
needed to understand and enable teams. Over the past 25 years, the rapid
advancement of information communication technologies has facilitated new forms
of collaboration and communication among individuals that have fundamentally
shifted the ways in which people team up. Most recently, social media are
increasingly being implemented in work organizations as tools facilitating
communication and collaboration among employees that are enabling individuals
to team up in new ways. Yet the rapid uptake of social media has outpaced
theoretical research on how these technologies are fundamentally altering
organizational processes at the team and inter-team level. In this talk, I will
present a conceptual framework advancing an affordance lens to understand the
relationship between social media use and team processes. This conceptual
framework is then used to explain how social media both affords and constrains
team processes."
