Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions

Employee satisfaction with meetings: A contemporary facet of job satisfaction

“…Additional recommendations for promoting positive meeting practices are discussed by . Furthermore, trade books on meetings abound (e.g., Tropman, 1996).…”

Interpersonal success factors for strategy implementation: a case study using group model building

“…This result had not been anticipated, but may be explained as a way for less powerful participants to ensure their views are considered. Many authors have explored the ability of an independent facilitator to reduce the effect of power imbalances between participants (Schwartz, 1994;Heron, 1999;Tropman, 2003;Rees, 2005). One pilot study found group model building is associated with 'power-levelling' (reducing the impact of power imbalances on communication- Van Nistelrooij et al, 2012).…”

The Faculty Meeting: Practicing Social Justice-Oriented Group Work

“…Meetings are the Downloaded by [Chinese University of Hong Kong] at 01:02 20 December 2014 brunt of many jokes: They provide ample fodder for stand-up comedians, comic strip characters, politicians, and playwrights. Everyone can relate to a good joke about bad meetings because bad meetings are a shared experience (Tropman, 1996). In his book Dave Barry Turns 50, comedic columnist Dave Barry (1998) commented, "If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings'" (p. 175).…”