Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Erlangen.

Thesis (doctortal)--Universität Breslau.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1996. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-109).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 367-407).

Introduction: The United States today has become "meeting-conscious." The complexity of conducting business has led to the need for sophisticated coordination of decision-making processes on all levels of the organization. Company meetings have played an increasingly important role in the success and future of many companies. Strategies and decisions are developed at meetings that can determine future policies of crucial importance. Executive training can mean the difference in whether the company will even survive. Large and growing companies have increased their off-premise meeting budgets annually in spite of the state of the economy. however, the rising costs of travel and lodging have made management monitor these budgets more closely than ever. Thus, the need to use every dollar efficiently has compelled companies to examine newer methods of running meetings and alternatives to the usage of typical off-premise meeting facilities. The importance of off-premise meetings in the United States economy has greatly increased due to the billions of dollars spent annually. These factors make it vital to explore the effectiveness of time and monetary expenditures. Up until the mid-1960's, company meetings were held in facilities of various design and purpose, none of which were specifically designed for the small to medium corporate meeting. Upon gathering information concerning the meetings market and the corporate meeting planner, certain individuals endeavored to change the situation. This study is designed to investigate this new concept, which will hereafter be referred to as "conference center." For the purpose of this study, the following two definitions will be used. 1. Conference center - that meeting facility primarily marketing its facilities for the small to medium-sized corporate meeting. The center is operated by specialists aware of market needs in as much detail as are those people working for the company involved. On-premise sleeping rooms are not mandatory provided such facilities are within easy access. 2. Meeting planner - that person within an organization who has primary responsibility for arranging off-premise meetings and all other related items necessary for meeting effectiveness. This person may spend anywhere from 10 to 100l of his time in this capacity. The conference center has effectively satisfied the need for specialized corporate meeting facilities. This study will show the depth of the corporate meetings market and trace the growth and development of this relatively new conference center concept. Information will also be compiled on the top centers in the country. It is hoped that by presenting this research meeting planners will become more aware of the nature and location of these centers, especially for use by the small to medium-sized company. Such exposure of the centers will hopefully increase existing demand and enable the construction of new, innovative centers.

"This study will deal with the principal types of faculty meetings as they have developed in America over the past thirty years. It will also consider methods and techniques of conducting faculty meetings, including the following: who plans the meeting, at what time and how frequently should they be held, what is the optimum length of each session, where should be meetings be held, what skills and techniques are needed for conducting meetings, what use should be made of other participants, and what use should be made of demonstration teaching. The writer will summarize his findings and make a tentative interpretation of them in the light of his experience as a principal in China"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1951." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: H. A. Curtis, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 28-29).

Background:Twenty-four percent of the elderly population in Sweden are foreign-born. These immigrants' knowledge of the Swedish language varieties and their conditions and need for care differ from each other, which means that those people have different opportunities to assimilate in the Swedish elderly care and the care provided. Good and functional care is a crucial factor in to be to create good care and a relationship between care staff and older immigrants. Those factors are necessary to be able to offer good and patient-safe care.   Aim: The purpose of this study was to describe older immigrants' experiences of communication in care meetings.  Method: The study's design was in the form of a literature review based on ten scientific studies with qualitative and quantitative articles and a mixed article. Results: The results have been presented in three themes, and in the first theme, experiences in dealing with healthcare staff have been presented. The second theme has focused on language barriers, and the third theme has focused on the experiences of using an interpreter in care meetings. Conclusion: Lack of communication, language barrier, and cultural clash are obstacles to care staff being able to provide good care and attention. The results also shown patients' concerns and difficulties in creating trust and a functioning relationship with healthcare staff.

In any organization, formal and informal face-to-face meetings make up a profound part in the daily life of its members. Meetings are played out continuously, some formal, such as a management board meeting, an information meeting, or a project meeting. The formal meetings people “attend to”, “participate in”, or “are in charge of” depending on a person’s position within them. Other meetings are less formal, such as a desk-side discussion, a chat in the hallway, or a private conversation between two colleagues. The latter often just appear, seemingly by chance. This dissertation examines meetings, as a way of observing the organizing process of complex product development projects. More specifically, organizations engaging in complex product development can be viewed as tension systems, where the dominant tension is between innovation and control. From this perspective, a critical challenge for a product development project becomes one of managing a balancing act between individual action and creativity, on one hand, and collaboration and control, on the other, ensuring that ideas and knowledge retrieved by their parts can be pooled into an integrated whole. By studying the interplay between different types of face-to-face meetings that took place in two projects developing telecommunication systems, this thesis engages in an inquiry of how this balancing act was played out in practice. The findings of the study suggest that the informal meetings comprised occasions that facilitated the perception of complex and ambiguous issues and gave rise to innovative interpretations of how to deal with them. When issues have been defined and interpreted, formal meetings were used to “elevate” and “enter” them into a formal existence. Then, formal claims for action could be established in which people in the projects were organized around the task of solving a specific and recognized problem.  Thus, formal meetings served as a controlling and structuring function. / <p>Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2002</p>

<p>När vi skriver detta examensarbete, år 2008, är debatten om miljön stor om hur konsumenten,</p><p>företagen, staten etc. kan minska sin miljöpåverkan genom att jobba smartare. Inom</p><p>företagen bedrivs som bekant ett ständigt arbete med hur man kan reducera sina kostnader.</p><p>Vi har valt att skriva om de möten i arbetslivet som kan hållas på distans, ett område som</p><p>går båda debatterna till mötes.</p><p>Eftersom många mötesdeltagare (deltagare) idag flyger eller åker bil för att komma till och</p><p>från möten så genererar distansmöten fördelar som att det reducerar företagens kostnader</p><p>samtidigt som det ger en minskad miljöpåverkan. Vi har i vår studie närmare undersökt hur</p><p>distansmöten bedrivs idag inom de två företag som vi är verksamma inom, vilka policys</p><p>och verktyg som finns för att främja dessa och hur deltagarna själva ser på saken. Detta för</p><p>att få svar på de forskningsfrågor som vi gemensamt arbetat fram i samråd med vår handledare.</p><p>Forskningsfrågorna är följande, Vilka skäl finns det till att hantera möten på distans</p><p>jämfört med traditionella fysiska möten? Vilka typer av möten kan hanteras på distans? Hur</p><p>kan effektiva och kvalitativa möten hållas på distans? Hur kan en organisation främja distansmöten?</p><p>Vårt syfte är att undersöka om det finns några tydliga mönster angående vilka möten en organisation</p><p>hanterar på distans och i så fall skapa en djupare förståelse för dessa och de riktlinjer</p><p>som idag finns för distansmöten. Ett av våra mål är också att det material vi får fram</p><p>skall kunna fungera stödjande vid utformning av mötespolicys.</p><p>Den metod som vi använt är triangulering där vår insamling av primärdata gjordes med totalt</p><p>16 st intervjuer och en enkät där hela 146 av ca 400 respondenter svarade. Vi har även</p><p>använt sekundärdata genom dokument såsom resepolicys och miljöpolicys. Parallellt med</p><p>vår insamling av empiriskt material har vi studerat relevant litteratur som tar upp ämnesområdet</p><p>distansmöten.</p><p>Vi har i rapporten valt att avgränsa oss och endast fokusera på interna möten i de båda studerade</p><p>företagen eftersom den sociala relationen i externa möten ofta ses som alltför viktig</p><p>för att i större utsträckning hanteras via distans.</p><p>Studien visar att en medvetenhet om de fördelar distansmöten ger kostnadsmässigt och</p><p>miljömässigt finns i de studerade företagen, men att de främsta skälen till att hantera möten</p><p>på distans ur deltagarens perspektiv är kostnadsbesparingen och den tidsvinst de genererar.</p><p>Resultatet pekar också på att alla typer av interna möten kan hanteras via distans, men att</p><p>förhandlingar är den mötestyp som är absolut svårast. Flertalet faktorer som exempelvis</p><p>mötets karaktär, kostnad, tillgänglig teknik och deltagarnas vana vid distansmöten påverkar</p><p>också starkt huruvida ett möte hanteras på distans eller inte.</p><p>För att få till stånd effektiva och kvalitativa distansmöten så visar studien att krav ställs på</p><p>tydlighet i vad som skall avhandlas och hur detta ska skötas, ordförandens egenskaper, de</p><p>tekniska hjälpmedlen samt att tiden för mötet begränsas till max 1-2 timmar. Tydlighet visar</p><p>sig också vara en avgörande faktor ur ett organisatoriskt perspektiv där de policys och</p><p>riktlinjer som sätts indirekt och direkt påverkar hur distansmöten bedrivs i organisationens</p><p>olika delar.</p>

This research examines mixed reality meetings, a context where individuals attend to both face-to-face group members while multitasking with technology. In these meetings, members engage simultaneously with those physically present and those outside of the meeting (virtual communication partners). Technology multitasking in meetings has a dual effect: it not only impacts the individual user, it has the potential to transform how collocated groups communicate and work together since attention becomes fragmented across multiple competing tasks. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to investigate mixed reality meetings across four themes: (1) the factors contributing to the likelihood to multitask based on meeting type, polychronicity (one’s preference for multitasking), and cohesion beliefs, (2) behavior during mixed reality assessed by copresence management, (3) attitudes toward technology multitasking, and (4) subjective outcomes measured by perceived productivity and meeting satisfaction. The qualitative data set consists of fieldwork from a global software company and interviews with 8 information workers. The quantitative data are comprised of survey results from the fieldwork site (n=156) and an online panel of information workers (n=110). Results indicate that information workers perceive distinct meeting types that are associated with implicit norms for appropriate technology multitasking. These norms varied based on the relevance of a meeting segment and if a power figure was present. A higher preference score for multitasking (high polychronicity) was significantly correlated with increased technology multitasking and perceived productivity. Members of cohesive teams exhibited the most technology multitasking and perceived their teammates multitasking as appropriate. However, outsiders who exhibited the same behaviors were viewed as rude and distracting. Overall, information workers who multitasked during meetings did so with electronic communication tasks (e-mail and instant messaging) as opposed to other computing tasks (e.g. writing documents, researching information). These findings are discussed in relation to psychological studies on multitasking, computer-supported cooperative work, and social constructionist views of technology use. This dissertation is a contribution to the assessment of technology use in social settings, particularly in organizations where tasks are often interrupted and a reliance on electronic communication tools impacts how people manage and accomplish work. / text