Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify how employees feel about having more meetings and what can be done … to improve employees' feelings about their work meetings. Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained from three … research questions. Findings – It is found that employees enjoy meetings when they have a clear objective, and when important …

meetings (i.e. pre-meeting talk). The paper explores how four specific types of pre-meeting talk (small talk, work talk … effect, in terms of meetings producing pre-meeting talk, and suggest that pre-meeting talk meaningfully impact employees …