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A Survival Guide For Office Meetings: Bring Your Own Toys.
- Source :
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Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition . 5/19/2004, Vol. 243 Issue 98, pB1-B1. 0p. 1 Cartoon or Caricature. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Offers advice to workers who are required to attend office meetings. Examples of the non-work related things workers do while in meetings; Comments from John E. Tropman, a University of Michigan organization-management professor who uses faculty meetings to grade papers, regarding the unintended usefulness of meetings; Estimated amount of money lost each year because of meetings, according to Tropman, who is the author of several books on how to make meetings more efficient; Terms used to describe meetings in an effort to make them seem more important; Comments from Bernie DeKoven, who ran the Institute for better Meetings for more than 15 years, suggesting meetings are ceremonies designed to reinforce the hierarchy.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00999660
- Volume :
- 243
- Issue :
- 98
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition
- Publication Type :
- News
- Accession number :
- 13129517