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dc.contributor.advisorKeyton, Joann
dc.contributor.advisorRusso, Tracy
dc.contributor.authorBeck, Stephenson John
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-08T01:15:26Z
dc.date.available2008-09-08T01:15:26Z
dc.date.issued2008-07-18
dc.date.submitted2008
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2476
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/4138
dc.description.abstractResearch on meeting interaction often reads like a how-to book, as both academic and popular literature focus primarily on normative, prescriptive strategies designed to produce effective meeting outcomes. Unfortunately, this approach has often led to ill-fated attempts at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of meetings, potentially hindering the progress of many theories in areas of decision making, leadership, social interaction, and information sharing. Specifically, scholars have either limited their approaches to a certain type of meeting activity (i.e., decision making) that by definition excludes some meeting interaction from analysis, or they have chosen an inclusive scheme (i.e., Interaction Process Analysis) without considering how task and relational interactions are used by group members in accomplishing meeting-specific tasks. Communication scholars are well situated to contribute to the development of interaction research in meetings, specifically focusing on the dynamic nature of communication (Burleson, 1992). In this study, three meeting contexts are analyzed using two interaction coding schemes, Bales' (1950a) Interaction Process Analysis (IPA) coding scheme and an adapted version of Scheerhorn, Geist and Teboul's (1994) communication in meetings coding scheme. This project investigates breast cancer support group meetings, nonprofit Internet service provider meetings, and local government commissioner meetings in order to clarify how messages function to accomplish meeting activities, how this differs within and between meeting contexts, and how task and relational messages influence meeting activities. In essence, it moves research past the what and explores the how of meetings through interaction.
dc.format.extent192 pages
dc.language.isoEN
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
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dc.subjectSpeech communication
dc.subjectSocial psychology
dc.subjectBusiness administration
dc.subjectInteraction analysis
dc.subjectContext
dc.subjectMeetings
dc.subjectTask/relational dimensions
dc.titleThe Communicative Creation of Meetings: An Interaction Analysis of Meeting Thought Units and Meeting Activities in Three Natural Meeting Contexts
dc.typeDissertation
dc.contributor.cmtememberKunkel, Adrianne
dc.contributor.cmtememberBeisecker, Thomas
dc.contributor.cmtememberSereno, Joan
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineCommunication Studies
dc.thesis.degreeLevelPH.D.
kusw.oastatusna
kusw.oapolicyThis item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria.
kusw.bibid6599453
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