Employees' feelings about more meetings: An overt analysis and recommendations for improving meetings

Management Research Review

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 405-418

  Allen, Joseph A ^a   Sands, Stephanie J ^a   Mueller, Stephanie L ^a   Frear, Katherine A ^b   Mudd, Mara ^c   Rogelberg, Steven G ^b  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c Bank of America Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Employees attitudes; Employees behaviour; Employees participation; Meeting demands; Meetings; Qualitative research; Thematic analysis; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859904438     PISSN: 20408269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409171211222331     Document Type: Article

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