Business Meeting Research Articles

2021 Annual Business Meeting for AMWA Members

AMWA President Gail V. Flores, PhD, called the meeting to order and provided a report about the accomplishments of the organization over the past year. She expressed gratitude to the 2020-2021 Board of Directors (BOD), committee and task force members, and volunteer leaders, who devoted their time and energy to lead AMWA during a challenging year. Julie Phelan, MD, MBA presented a financial report for the period of July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021. Dr Flores announced that in accordance with the AMWA bylaws, the nominating committee presented the following slate of officers for 2021-2022 to the AMWA BOD: • President-Elect: Elise Eller, PhD • Secretary: Michelle Sauer-Gehring, PhD, ELS • Treasurer: Julie Phelan, MD, MBA

Business discourse, system and types of its genres

The article is dedicated to defining the concept of business discourse, which is a type of institutional discourse and purposeful status role-playing. Institutional business discourse is a complex, multidimensional discourse where each area has its own, innate only addressee and addressee, communication goals and objectives, interaction situations, goals, and strategies for achieving them.The article will also present the system of business discourse genres, which is relevant in the communication of specialists in management, marketing, economics, trade, business and other fields. A system of genres can only exist in a professional activity in which "the word is a professional tool." The article will discuss such genres of institutional business discourse as: business conversation, business negotiation, business meetings, which are referred to in a number of modern scientific publications as so-called "complex speech events".Each genre of business speech has its own specific communication task and purpose (reasoning, thought-making, decision-making, etc.), but at the same time, these tasks and goals are close to the fact that it is the business tasks and goals that are professionals and businessmen Professional communication of a professional circle.These goals and objectives are often intertwined and complement each other. The article will present three types of business discourse: employment discourse, operational interaction and staff discourse, and three levels of business discourse analysis algorithm.

Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting, via Zoom, January 7, 2022

Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting, via Zoom, January 7, 2022

Going virtual: Academic conferences in the age of COVID-19

In the context of the 2020 world pandemic of COVID-19, many professional and scientific associations have had to change the way that they gather and reorganize their scholarly conferences. For many of them, conferences are a main source of income and important occasions for business meetings and managerial decisions. Yet, with trips and face-to-face encounters banned, the opportunity arrived for going virtual and developing human and technical capacities to provide online environments for virtual conferences. In this article, we analyze the case of an e-conference co-organized by two international organizations at two levels: (a) the decision-making process and (b) the assessment by attendees. Relying on personal, first-hand experience, participant observation, and a post-conference survey, we collected data that allow an examination of the intricacies of the decision to go virtual as well as pros and cons of the experiences of colleagues who presented papers and attended sessions. Consistent with previous studies, we found that scholars value the possibility of having more colleagues participating (providing geographic and career stage diversity), reduction of carbon emissions, lower travel and transportation costs, and ease of watching presentations later (through recordings). On the other hand, academics point to the difficulty of socializing as the main problem, with implications for strengthening academic networks and consolidation of professional careers.

PENDAMPINGAN DAN TEMU BISNIS BAGI DIFABELPRENEUR KOTA DENPASAR

The term "difable" for people with disabilities is nowadays preferred because it is seen as more appropriate. People with disabilities in Denpasar City have the desire to be independent and achieve equality with other communities. The difables are also actively pioneering businesses in the creative industry sector, and they are called "difabelpreneurs." There are three main problems faced by difabelpreneurs, namely low business and management knowledge, limited access to capital, and restricted marketing reach. The Community Service activity in the form of mentoring and business meetings for Difabelpreneurs in Denpasar City aims to improve business and management knowledge and expand access to capital and marketing sources. The results of the activity showed an increase in business and management knowledge, as well as the establishment of capital and marketing cooperation.

Proceedings of the 90th Business Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists

Proceedings of the 90th Business Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists

ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯ ДІЛОВИХ НАРАД ЯК ЧИННИК ЕФЕКТИВНОЇ КОМУНІКАЦІЇ В РЕФЕРЕНТНІЙ ТА ОФІСНІЙ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ

<p><strong><em>The purpose</em></strong><em> of the study is to analyze the typology of business meetings as a factor of effective communication in reference and office activities.</em></p><p><strong><em>Research methodology.</em></strong><em> In the course of the research the theoretical methodological case was used: classification method (types of meetings, types of formats), system-value approach through the prism of compliance with the core values of «organization health» and «corporate culture»). </em></p><p><strong><em>Results.</em></strong><em> The article provided the classic classifications of meetings were presented, P. Lensioni’s theory of types of meetings was highlighted: administrative, tactical, strategic, development-related, argued the ineffectiveness of the so-called «meeting rage» (according to P. Lensioni).</em><em> </em><em>It was found that the formation of the agenda, the use of the evaluation card of tactical meetings, document regulation, verification of strategic «anchors» at «field» meetings, inviting experts, consultants, cascading communication, strengthening the functions of the company’s communicator (assistant manager, consultant, information specialist) ) – the main focuses of achieving the benefits of business communication. </em></p><p><strong><em>The scientific novelty</em></strong><em> of intelligence lies in the identified need to organize business meetings in reference and office activities as a factor of effective communication, taking into account the value approach of corporate culture, current trends in the typology of meetings and their formats.</em></p><p><strong><em>Practical significance.</em></strong><em> Analyzed trends in the transformation of strategic meetings to non-traditional formats, including brainstorming, collective and individual «brainstorming», mastermind, the Japanese decision-making system «kingeso» show the practical importance of intelligence and prospects for business communication research and adaptation of these tools to online platforms . The top offers of the digital world for improving virtual events are outlined. Each professional field offers its own specific tools to strengthen communication interaction to effectively address the issue, but the value of the «health of the organization» remains at the core.</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words: </em></strong><em>meeting, types of meetings, effective business communication, cascade communication, reference activity, office work.</em></p>

Adoption of web-based group decision support systems: experiences from the field and future developments

While organizations have massively adopted enterprise information systems to support business processes, business meetings in which key decisions are made about products, services and processes, are usually held without much support of information systems. This is remarkable as group decision support systems (GDSS) seems to fit for this purpose. They have existed for decades and modern versions benefit of web-based technologies, enabling low cost anyplace, any time and device independent meeting support. In this exploratory case research, we study nine organizations in four different adoption categories to learn more about the reasons for the relatively slow adoption of web-based GDSS. Using the Fit-Viability adoption framework we conduct interviews with organizations that have experience with using GDSS. We conclude that adopting GDSS requires considerable and carefully planned change of processes that are deeply grounded in the organization. Existing meeting routines need to be adapted. Introduction needs to be carefully planned and room for face-to-face meetings and creativity sessions away from the keyboard need to be built in depending on the type of meeting. Not all companies find the cost level affordable. Clear and convincing business cases are lacking. Still the added value is ranked highly and there are frequent and enthusiastic user organizations that may lead the way for others. Their success stories show others how to mitigate problems.

It’s Fraud! Application of Machine Learning Techniques for Detection of Fraudulent Digital Advertising

Due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, industries are heavily reliant on online meeting platforms. The pandemic has forced most MNCs to rely on online platforms such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams to hold daily business meetings and even conferences and other corporate events. Schools and other educational institutions have also been forced to conduct classes and all other events through these platforms. This increased unavoidable dependence on online platforms has resulted in an exponential increase in advertising fraud. Advertising fraud is the application of any method or technology that hampers the proper delivery of advertisements to the proper audience or the proper place, or forcefully inserts advertisements at undesirable times or locations. This could take multiple forms and has become far more widespread with increased use of online platforms. Some common methods used for digital fraud can be the pay-per-click (PPC) model, domain spoofing or in the form of bots, but the main objective is to gain financial advantages from advertising transactions. The primary objective of this study is to identify and understand the factors lying behind the presence of fraudulent activities on any online medium and to analyse the probability of downloading an application after coming across the online advertisement, and watching it. The study also aims to highlight how marketing agencies tend to float fraud advertisement just to gain more revenue from their end.

Improvement of Event Management Positioning in Enterprise Management

Tendencies of conducting business in the 21st century created the need to transform conventional approaches in management seeking opportunities for implementing new effective management tools for various aspects of production and economic activity. Recently, event management has become one of the most dynamic subsystems of enterprise management functioning in parallel with other subsystems (in particular, subsystems of financial management, production management, quality management, personnel management, innovation management, management of foreign economic activities, information management, risk management, project management, etc.). The pace of event industry development is increasing every year, both in Ukraine and worldwide. Today, it is difficult to imagine existence of any business sphere without the tools and methods of various business event management initiatives (business meetings, fairs, exhibitions, conferences, congresses, marketing events, social initiatives, etc.), as well as without teambuilding character of activities at economic entities, encompassed in the concept of event management. At the same time, giving its low coverage in literature, the issue of event management positioning in the enterprise management leads to the creation of various problems: it becomes difficult to determine its optimal structure depending on the type of business, its role in ensuring development of a business entity is "blurred", its significance in creating added business value is underestimated, etc. The purpose of this article is to develop a model for positioning event management in company management, looking at it from a two dimentional perspective: focusing on processes and focusing on the future, depending on the level of event management integration into the overall management system in a company. To achieve the set goal, a systematic approach, a graphic display method, as well as a structural and logical analysis were used. The proposed model adds value to the list of scientific and practical provisions in event management sphere, as it makes it possible to unfold its deep essence and structure, which are instrumental for the realities of modern businesses, and to determine its connection with other management subsystems through the prism of "value for others". In addition, the given proposals contribute to the understanding of event management as a system-forming component in increasing business efficiency. Finally, the specified model will help to increase profitability of enterprise by integrating divisions involved in event management processes. It is about event management at its highest levels of development contributing to the creation of actual added business value

100th anniversary of the Carpathian-Balkan geological association (CBGA)

During the 22nd Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association (CBGA) held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (September 7?11, 2022), the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the CBGA was marked. A resolution for establishing the ?Carpathian Geological Association? was adopted during the 13th session of the international Geological Congress in Brussels (August 19, 1922). it was a result of the efforts and initiative of R. Kettner(Czechoslovakia), J. Nowak (Poland), G. Munteanu Murgoci (Romania), and V. Petkovic (Yugoslavia). Later, after the Second world war, the association changed its name to the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association (CBGA). during the last hundred years, the CBGA has passed several phases of its existence and organization regarding European geopolitical changes. the main goal of the CBGA remained the same as at the beginning: to promote and encourage joint fundamental and applied geological research in the Carpathian-Balkan region and surrounding area. today, many geoscientists from the 16 member states collaborate in the frame of official working groups of CBGA, EU professional projects, business meetings and joint topics, education programs, etc. CBGA is affiliated with the international union of Geological Science (IUGS) as one of the oldest regional organizations. Based on increasing industrial and environmental demands and needs and an interest in the region?s vast scientific and professional community, we believe the CBGA can improve its activity and give additional benefits to the scientific community, industry, and the environment.

The Mission and the role of African women in solving of global problems of our time

In recent decades, all over the world, including on the African continent, there has been an unprecedented increase in the activity of women in the economy, social and political life, in the fields of culture, art, science and education. The international cooperation of representatives of state authorities and activists of women's organizations is being strengthened and expanded, a vivid example of which was the III Eurasian Women's Forum held in St. Petersburg on October 13-15, 2021, which brought together representatives from 110 countries and 20 international organizations. More than 90 events were held in the business part of the forum: sessions, discussion clubs, business dialogues, business meetings, during which topical issues related not only to the place and role of women in solving global problems of our time, but also problems affecting the life, health, well-being and progressive development of each individual and the world community as a whole were discussed.

2021 Awards for outstanding contributions to veterinary anesthesiology

It is our great pleasure to announce that two of our distinguished colleagues received awards for their contributions to veterinary anesthesiology from the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia (ACVAA) at the September 2021 Annual Business Meeting. Professor Wayne N McDonell was presented the ACVAA 2021 Career Achievement Award for his long career of outstanding performance in advancing the art and science of veterinary anesthesia and/or analgesia. Professor William ‘Bill’ J Tranquilli was presented the President’s Award for Meritorious Service to the ACVAA in advancement of veterinary anesthesia and analgesia through leadership, service and outreach.

BUSINESS GAME IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING ENGLISH AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Statement of the problem. The article describes the method of the "business game", contributing to the formation of communicative competence which is so necessary in today's business intercultural communication. This study demonstrates how, in the course of learning English, such a method as a business game contributes to the formation of communicative competence, which is so necessary in the conditions of modern business intercultural communication. The article emphasizes that business games play a special role in the development of the English language by students of IT, economics and management majors. Creating situations that are close to the real future professional activity will help graduates of these areas of study in the future, since they are more often than others in a situation of international cooperation, where the opportunity to implement the acquired knowledge and competencies is quite high. The main task of this work was to develop a procedure for conducting pair and group work, to determine the scope of potential cross-cultural dissonance, and to propose specific educational situations presented in the form of business games. Results. The article analyzes the use of the communicative method in the study of the English language to form a certain level of communicative and socio-cultural competencies. The algorithm for preparing and conducting a business game is defined, and the main areas of possible cross-cultural misunderstandings are identified. The advantages of conducting a business game as a method of improving the language, speech and socio-cultural components of communicative competence are described. The business game for economics specialties is considered on the examples of business meetings devoted to the discussion of marketing strategies. For students of the IT sphere, the variants of the business game were used, aimed at obtaining the skills of conducting telephone conversations with the purpose of helping the client to resolve problems. An important result is the possibility to improve the level of proficiency of the necessary professional terminology in English, as well as the use of the proposed training situations in the classroom with students of the program of additional professional education "Translator in the field of professional communication". Conclusion. The formation of communicative and socio-cultural skills in the situation of business intercultural communication is one of the most important strategies of modern teaching of any foreign language. The business game, aimed at creating situations that reflect the modern realities of life, namely, to develop the skills of conducting business meetings, discussions, negotiations and solving specific problems, promotes motivated professional-oriented language learning. The use of a business game in the process of mastering the English language helps to overcome the difficulties that specialists in various fields face in the course of their further professional activities.

Meeting technologies and recordkeeping: a preliminary study

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to raise awareness of the benefits and drawbacks involved in using digital technologies for business meetings, and identify key concerns. The shift from in-person to virtual meetings has multiple consequences, some of which impact recordkeeping.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on research from records management, anthropology, organizational theory and computer science, this study establishes the norms of physical meeting spaces and recordkeeping and explores how these norms are challenged as meetings become virtual.FindingsVirtual meetings allow for collaboration to work across time and space and offer multiple affordances that do not exist in on-site meetings; however, they also involve the additional barrier of technical access and reduction in user attention. Virtual meetings also enable the creation, capture and sharing of increased contextual data, and this increased documentation challenges traditional recordkeeping models. Meeting technologies are also worryingly invasive. This study shows that concerns over privacy have been dismissed in the design of virtual meeting spaces, and therefore the authors recommend their more thorough consideration.Originality/valueMeetings are a pervasive feature of organizational life whose significance has been overlooked in the recordkeeping literature. By bringing together research about in-person and virtual meetings in a novel and necessary way, the authors started to fill a gap and hope to inspire further studies.

STANDARDISATION AND JUSTIFICATION OF PRODUCT AND SERVICE QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT INDUSTRY

The hospitality industry is a fast-growing sector of the economy, which contributes to the development of other sectors of the country’s economy. Cultural and business relations of Ukraine with other countries are expanding, the number of tourists requiring accommodation and service facilities meeting international standards is growing. Therefore, attention to the quality, safety, competitiveness and standardisation of hotel services has recently increased. The main task of hospitality industry enterprises is to serve guests of our country providing them with accommodation, arranging business meetings, satisfying their demand for high-quality recreation and entertainment. To study the quality of provided services expert methods based on a quality scoring scale are widely used in the field of hospitality. Unified legislative requirements, standards, quality analysis and verification of products and services provided by hospitality establishments is necessary to ensure the quality of services that meet the world standard requirements. Qualimetric assessment methods allow to convert qualitative indicators into quantitative ones, which simplifies the research process. To assess the quality of products and services a comprehensive method has been applied, which lies in the quality level assessment with a single number obtained by combining the used single qualitative indexes into one complex index. The research is about the services quality of the four-star Gagarinn Hotel in the city of Odesa. The survey has revealed that the quality service criterion is well-organized booking, reception and accommodation of the hotel. It has been found that the guests accommodated by group characteristics value professionalism and service culture the most, followed by convenience of payment and service standard. The composite assessment of the guest service quality in the accommodation establishment is 0.65. The results show that the quality of services provided at the stage of booking, reception and accommodation of guests in the studied hotel is at a sufficiently high level.

Tennessee Academy of Science Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, November 2021

Tennessee Academy of Science Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, November 2021

ACM SIGIR annual business meeting 2021

The 2021 ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting took place twice during the week of SIGIR (July 11--15, 2021) to accommodate participants from different time zones. It was led by the chair of the SIGIR Executive Committee (EC), Ben Carterette.

Minutes of the Atla Business Meeting

Minutes of the Atla Business Meeting, June 17, 2021.

An Investigation into Iranian Employee’s Intercultural Communicative Competence: Does Learning English as a Foreign Language Help?

ABSTRACT Globalization has made English language skills and intercultural communicative competence (ICC) necessary for international and intercultural interactions in the context of business worldwide. The present study sought to survey and compare the levels of 200 Iranian employees’ ICC with a focus on the participants’ native culture and the cultures of the English speaking countries. The findings of this study revealed that, overall, the participants had a moderate level of ICC, and that female employees scored significantly higher on the ICC scale than their male counterparts. Further, this study found that although the participants believed English language learning had a moderate impact on developing their ICC, they viewed their English language classrooms ineffective in promoting cultural awareness. These findings were explained considering the socio-political influences on English language learning and teaching in Iran, the participants’ degree of English language proficiency, experience of visiting other countries and attending international business meetings, and the participants’ views of English and ICC effectiveness in their career progress, in addition to the impact of the changes in the gender roles in Iran. Implications and limitations are discussed.