Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Assistant Prof, Management faculty, Lorestan university, Khorramabad, Iran.
2 PhD student in public Administraion, Faculty of Management, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
Abstract
In government organizations, a human phenomenon known as meeting madness in managers is causing significant damage to the organizational structure. Meeting madness is defined as managers' excessive tendency to hold numerous, lengthy, and ineffective meetings. Given that these meetings lead to a chain of negative consequences for the organization and human performance, this study aims to identify and analyze the causes and consequences of meeting madness in managers using the Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) method. This study is applied in terms of its goal, and exploratory in terms of data collection. It is a mixed-methods research, employing both qualitative and quantitative approaches, based on an inductive-deductive philosophical framework. The statistical population of the expert research consists of university professors and managers of government organizations in Lorestan province, 20 of whom were selected using purposive sampling and based on the principle of theoretical adequacy. The data collection tool in the qualitative part was a semi-structured interview, whose validity and reliability were confirmed using content validity and theoretical validity and the intra-coder and inter-coder reliability methods. Also, the data collection tool in the quantitative section is a questionnaire, the validity and reliability of which was confirmed using content validity and test-retest reliability. Since the present study is a mixed research with an exploratory approach, a qualitative study must be conducted first and then a quantitative study must be conducted. Therefore, qualitative data was analyzed using the opinions of 20 experts until information saturation and theoretical adequacy was achieved. Qualitative data was analyzed with Maxqda 2020 software and content analysis method, and quantitative data was analyzed with fuzzy cognitive map method. Thus, by analyzing the centrality indices, the most important dimensions constituting the concept were identified, and then through causal relationships, the set of relationships between variables was examined. The findings of this research indicate that the use of performative management by managers, managers' entanglement with defensive avoidance in decision-making, and the prevalence of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) among managers are the most significant causes of meeting madness in managers. Furthermore, the emergence of "brain fog" in employees, the introduction of procrastination within the organization, wasted time, and the loss of productive work hours were identified as the most prominent consequences of meeting madness in managers.
Keywords
)
Send comment about this article