Measuring Team Meeting Success: Does Everyone Really Need to Participate?

Facilitators are encouraged to get all meeting attendees to participate in the meeting. There is the assumption made that, if they do participate, then this participation will increase the group's general satisfaction of the meeting. Also, knowing the factors that can increase the probability of a successful meeting has been a focus of previous research, yet attendee participation has not been studied. The current research study empirically examines participation's effect on meeting evaluations. This study is a field experiment conducted in a team-based organization, where successful meetings are critical. Data was collected on the amount of participation of team members in their weekly team meeting and their evaluations of the meeting. After running correlations and a principal components analysis, this study found a relationship between participation and meeting evaluations. A scale of meeting success was also created.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2005

Author dc:creator

• Longo, Jodi Olaine

Contributors dc:contributor

• Beyerlein, Michael
• Ballentine, Rodger
• Huff, Joseph W.

• Teams in the workplace.
• Meetings -- Evaluation.
• participation
• meetings
• facilitation
• work teams
• field experiment

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Longo, Jodi Olaine
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 68717710
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4858/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc4858

OAI identifier oai:identifier

info:ark/67531/metadc4858