MEETINGS AND?'HE DAILY WELL-BEING OF EMPLOYEES

Although meetings are a pervasive experience of organizational life, researchers have not examined their effects on the employee. By likening meetings to interruptions and daily hassles, this study proposed that the meeting experiences of an employee can affect hidher daily well-being. Participants were asked to maintain a daily work diary of their work meetings for a period of one week. They were also asked to complete daily self-reports of their well-being, which included measures of fatigue, negative mood, subjective workload, and feelings of productivity. Based upon the work diary, information about various aspects of the employee's daily meeting experiences were gathered, including: number of meetings attended, percentage of time they consumed, how they were scheduled, and their relevance to the employee's primary work goals. Using HLM analyses, results showed statistically significant relationships between number of meetings attended and daily fatigue as well as subjective workload. The extent to which meetings helped employees achieve work goals and were relevant to their roles and responsibilities were positively related to daily feelings of productivity. Exploratory HL