Expectations of technology use during meetings: An experimental test of manager policy, device use, and task-acknowledgment

In organizational meetings, mobile media are commonly used to hold multiple simultaneous conversations (i.e., multicommunication). This experiment uses video vignettes to test how manager policy (no policy, pro-technology, anti-technology), device use (notepad, laptop, cell phone) and task-acknowledgment (no task-acknowledgment, task-acknowledgment) affect perceptions of meeting multicommunication behavior. US workers ( N = 243) who worked at least 30 hours per week and attended at least one weekly meeting rated relevant outcomes: expectancy violation, communicator evaluation, perceived competence, and meeting effectiveness. Results reveal manager policy and device use both affect multicommunication perceptions, with mobile phones generating the highest expectancy violation and lowest evaluation of the communicator and meeting effectiveness. Surprisingly, there was no effect for task-acknowledgment; however, a match between manager policy and task-acknowledgment affected evaluations. This paper unifies past evidence about multicommunication under the expectancy violations framework, extends theoretical understandings of mobile media use at work, and suggests practical implications for technology use in unfamiliar workplace situations.

If I Had Something to Add, I Would

Most employees participate in workplace meetings, and their experiences in meetings can vary greatly, which can lead to positive or negative effects on both job attitudes and behavior. In this study, we examined the effect that a meeting attendee’s competence in the meeting topic had on their participation in the meeting and their perception of meeting effectiveness. Results indicated those with higher levels of competence in the meeting topic were more likely to participate and through participation found their meeting more effective; this relationship was stronger when employee dissent in the meetings was high. Leaders should ensure that those who are present in a meeting are competent in the topic of the meeting and encourage them to participate.

Meeting effectiveness and task performance: meeting size matters

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate how a key meeting design characteristic, meeting size, affects the relationship between meeting effectiveness and task performance through employee engagement.Design/methodology/approachA three-wave time-lagged survey design was used to gather data concerning meeting experiences from employees for statistical model testing.FindingsUsing a moderated mediated path analysis, we found that effective meetings only translated into end-of-the-day task performance through engagement when the meeting size was small.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough much research supports the current findings related to group size and meetings, meeting science has not investigated meeting design characteristics as levers to be pulled to enhance or detract from both meeting outcomes and organizationally desired outcomes. The findings, though are limited, due to potential common method bias, which was limited using methodological and statistical processes.Practical implicationsManagers and meeting attendees should consider how to maintain relatively small meeting size when possible so as to maximize both engagement and performance.Originality/valueThe current study is one of the few to look at meeting size directly as a moderator and helps demonstrate, once again, the importance of effectively designing meetings for success.

Job Satisfaction as a Mediator of the Impact of Meeting Effectiveness on Organizational Commitment

Job satisfaction, leadership, meeting effectiveness, and organizational commitment have become the subjects of numerous research papers, due mainly to their vital roles in the development of organizations. We based our research on previous studies related to leadership, meeting effectiveness, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment and an empirical study. The authors emphasize the influence of leadership on meeting effectiveness and the impact of the mediating role of job satisfaction on the relationship between meeting effectiveness and organizational commitment, increasing more employees’ commitment to their organizations. Our research aims to show whether leadership has a positive effect on meeting effectiveness, how meeting effectiveness affects organizational commitment, and to what extent job satisfaction impacts this relationship. We used data collected in our analysis and created a questionnaire that was distributed to 249 respondents working at 34 Vietnamese organizations from a variety of sectors such as tax, banking, health service, airlines, education, and business. Using non-probability sampling with the calculation of exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling, the authors found that leadership significantly affects meeting effectiveness, and meeting effectiveness positively influences organizational commitment with the mediation of job satisfaction.

New Meeting Form in the Digital Working Environment Era

Digital progress has had an impact on almost every aspect of human life, including the work environment. The digital era gave birth to an all-digital work environment, which gave birth to new forms of work, one of which was teamwork that could be carried out without the limitation of distance that is commonly called a virtual team through virtual meeting. This research using qualitative research method to collect data from respondents through deep interview. Respondent are selected by purposive sampling method with several consideration such as their engagement in virtual meeting process. The result of our study shows that quality of communication tools really influences the quality of virtual meeting and influence all the aspect of virtual meeting effectiveness. Our research also found that training not become significant needs because they quite familiar with the technology and they have IT division to prepare all supporting tools to prepare all tools for virtual meeting needs. Significant thing that must well prepare to make every virtual meeting effectively is quality of internet connection.

Group and Organizational Safety Norms Set the Stage for Good Post-Fall Huddles

We explored group and organizational safety norms as antecedents to meeting leader behaviors and achievement of desired outcomes in a special after-action review case—a post-fall huddle. A longitudinal survey design was used to investigate the relationship between organizational/group safety norms, huddle leader behavior, and huddle meeting effectiveness. The sample included health care workers in critical access hospitals ( N = 206) who completed a baseline safety norm assessment and an assessment of post-fall huddle experiences 3 to 6 months later. Findings indicate that organizational and group safety norms relate to perceived huddle meeting effectiveness through appropriate huddle leader behavior in a partial mediated framework. In contrast to previous research showing after-action reviews predicting group and organizational safety norms, the longitudinal study presented here suggests that group and organizational safety norms set the stage for the enactment of post-fall huddles in an effective manner.

Analysis of Teachers’ Opinions on Branch Teachers Committee

This study aimed at the effectiveness of the branch teachers’ committee based on teachers’ opinions. It covers 66 middleschool teachers working in Bucak town centre in Burdur province. A data gathering form consisting of open-ended questions was used. The descriptive analysis technique was used. It was understood that issues considered in this committee were not assessed effectively. The reason for such observation was that these meetings were usually held in a perfunctory way and teachers did not give necessary importance to these meetings. In addition, about 70% of teachers thought that decisions taken at the branch teachers committee were not applied. Teachers indicated, for further functional branch teacher committee, that it was necessary to evaluate subjects more in-depth, decision with higher possibility of realisation should be taken and school administration should offer required support for these decisions. Keywords: Middle school, branch teachers’ committee meeting, effectiveness.