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Employees’ Feelings About More Meetings: An Overt Analysis And Recommendations For Improving Meetings, Joseph A. Allen, Stephanie J. Sands, Stephanie L. Mueller, Katherine A. Frear, Mara Mudd, Steven G. Rogelberg Jan 2012

Employees’ Feelings About More Meetings: An Overt Analysis And Recommendations For Improving Meetings, Joseph A. Allen, Stephanie J. Sands, Stephanie L. Mueller, Katherine A. Frear, Mara Mudd, Steven G. Rogelberg

Psychology Faculty Publications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify how employees feel about having more meetings and what can be done to improve employees’ feelings about their work meetings.

Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained from three samples of working adults. The first was a convenience sample recruited by undergraduate students (n = 120), the second was a stratified random sample from a metropolitan area in the southern USA (n = 126), and the third was an internet-based panel sample (n = 402). Constant comparative analysis of responses to open-ended questions was used to investigate the overarching research questions.

Findings …