Meeting design characteristics and attendee perceptions of staff/team meeting quality.

Abstract

Meetings, a common tool in organizations, are used for a variety of purposes. These purposes include information sharing (

Emergent Team Roles in Organizational Meetings: Identifying Communication Patterns via Cluster Analysis

“…Meetings are a frequent organizational activity, with employees spending 6 hours per week, on average, in meetings (e.g., Cohen, Rogelberg, Allen, & Luong, 2011;Rogelberg, Leach, Warr, & Burnfield, 2006). Team meetings in particular have become an integral part of employees' work lives (e.g., Lehmann-Willenbrock, Allen, & Kauffeld, 2013).…”

European network for Health Technology Assessment Joint Action (EUnetHTA JA): a process evaluation performed by questionnaires and documentary analysis

“…61 Meetings can fulfil various functions; information sharing, brainstorming, problem solving, and decision-making and socialising. 61 Characteristics of meetings have been studied and classified as temporal (relating to the use of time in a meeting, e.g. use of a break), physical (relating to the meeting environment, e.g.…”

“…Other attributes that have a positive effect include having a break, sufficient lighting and temperature of the room, room space and refreshments. 61 …”

“…The academic literature has shown that seating the chairperson separately might help them exert their authority over proceedings 60 and it is important that participants are able to express their opinions and everyone is heard, and that discussions are respectful. 61 How the participants viewed the meeting can have important attitude and behavioural implications and can impact negatively on the ability of a meeting to reach its goal and support of future meetings. Perception of meetings can also have an effect on employee morale.…”

Social Dynamics at Work

“…Studies show that a lack of meeting structure and lack of meeting facilitation lower meeting attendees' perceived meeting quality (Cohen, Rogelberg, Allen, & Luong, 2011;Leach et al, 2009; see also Wittenbaum, Vaughan, & Stasser, 1998). The act4teams coding scheme accommodates these findings by coding procedural statements.…”