Title: Does my attitude toward meetings matter? The impact of supervisors' and team members' team meeting attitudes on counterproductive meeting behaviour and outcomes

Authors: Eva-Maria Schulte; Simone Kauffeld

Addresses: Department of Industrial/Organizational and Social Psychology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 19, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany ' Department of Industrial/Organizational and Social Psychology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 19, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany

Abstract: Team meeting attitudes and counterproductive meeting behaviour are important predictors of meeting success. However, the link between team meeting attitudes and counterproductive meeting behaviour has not been studied yet. This study aims to examine positive team meeting attitudes as a predictor of counterproductive meeting behaviour, which in turn, is expected to negatively impact individual (i.e., employees' emotional strain) and team (i.e., meeting effectiveness and team performance) outcomes. Using team data and multilevel modelling, we further analyse the importance of supervisors' team meeting attitudes for team members' team meeting attitudes and meeting success. Results supported that team meeting attitudes of supervisors, teams, and individual team members are negatively linked to counterproductive meeting behaviour, which in turn, is negatively linked to meeting effectiveness and team performance as well as positively linked to emotional strain.

Keywords: team meeting attitudes; counterproductive meeting behaviour; meeting effectiveness; conservation of resources theory; multilevel modelling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2020.110688

International Journal of Management Practice, 2020 Vol.13 No.6, pp.674 - 697

Accepted: 10 Oct 2019
Published online: 28 Oct 2020 *

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