title: "Not another meeting!" Are meeting time demands related to employee well-being?
abstract: Using an interruptions framework, this article proposes and tests a set of hypotheses concerning the relationship of meeting time demands with job attitudes and well-being (JAWB). Two Internet surveys were administered to employees who worked 35 hr or more per week. Study 1 examined prescheduled meetings attended in a typical week (N=676), whereas Study 2 investigated prescheduled meetings attended during the current day (N=304). As proposed, the relationship between meeting time demands and JAWB was moderated by task interdependence, meeting experience quality, and accomplishment striving. However, results were somewhat dependent on the time frame of a study and the operational definition used for meeting time demands. Furthermore, perceived meeting effectiveness was found to have a strong, direct relationship with JAWB.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28270, USA. sgrogelb@email.uncc.edu
authors.forename: Steven G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Rogelberg
authors.forename: Desmond J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Leach
authors.forename: Peter B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Warr
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Burnfield
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002055:Burnout, Professional; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011788:Quality of Life; D013997:Time Factors