Multiple identifications during team meetings: A comparison of conventional and computer‐supported interactions

The renewed popularity of team meetings and the growth of electronic meeting systems has been paralleled by reports of declining loyalty, or identification, in organizations. The research reported here addresses two issues: (a) How do identifications with various facets of the workplace during team meetings compare to more general assessments of identification in the workplace? and (b) How do conventional (face‐to‐face) and computer‐mediated meetings compare with regard to identification? Data from 122 members of 11 intact organizational teams, meeting in either a conventional or computer‐supported format, reveal that identification scores during team meetings are consistently less than general identification scores and that computer‐supported team meetings exhibit lower group, organizational, and occupational identifications than do conventional team meetings.