Effective Meetings

“Why Face-to-Face Business Meetings Matter”

A White Paper by Professor Richard D. Arvey, Ph.D. Business School, National University of Singapore

Contents 1. Biography of Professor Richard D. Arvey, Ph.D Business School, National University of Singapore 2. Introduction 3. Recent Trends Regarding Business Meetings 4. Circumstances Favoring Face-to-Face Business Meetings 5. Why Are Face-to-Face Business Meetings Important? 6. Business Advantages of Face-to-Face Business Meetings 7. Creating More Value for Business Meetings 8. Holding Meetings in Diverse Cultures 9. Summary

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Professor Richard D. Arvey, Ph.D. Business School, National University of Singapore

Dr Richard D Arvey is currently the head of the Department of Management and Organization at the National University of Singapore and has been active as an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist for over 30 years. After receiving his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1970 and working briefly with Personnel Decisions, Inc., a consulting firm in Minneapolis, he joined the Department of Industrial Management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Subsequently, he taught at the University of Houston for five years. In 1983, he joined the Industrial Relations Center at the University of Minnesota. He was awarded the Human Resource and Industrial Relations Land Grant Chair in 1998. In 2006 he moved to Singapore where he teaches and conducts research. He was awarded the Career Achievement Award from the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management in 2006. His areas of interest and research include the following: Selection and placement of employees, the employment interview, employment testing, discrimination and bias in selection and employment, job analysis, performance appraisal, motivation and job satisfaction, work redesign, and training and development, and more recently leadership. He uses twin studies to examine the genetic components...