The Influence of Organizational Meetings on Productivity: A Study of Vodafone Ghana

The Influence of Organizational Meetings on Productivity: A Study of Vodafone Ghana

Marian Agyekum Peasah

Meetings are associated with higher team productivity but too many meetings can negatively affect productivity. The structure of the study is to determine the influence of organizational meetings on productivity at Vodafone Ghana. The research adopted the descriptive survey design with a quantitative approach to collect data from the target population employed by Vodafone Ghana. Using the stratified random sampling method, approximately 258 (32%) of employees were sampled from a total of 805 employees of the various departments. A selfdesigned was used to collect data from employees and open questions, data was collected from employees. SPSS software was used to analyze the descriptive and inferential statistics Results indicated that during the week, meetings were held, mainly daily (24.4%), four times a week (10.1%), three times a week (5.8%) and twice a week (37.6%). Meetings were held, mainly three times a day (42.6%), four times a day (27.9%) and, twice a day (26.0%). Meetings duration was long; one hour (69.8%) and one and a half hours (10.1%). There was a negative association of meetings with productivity among respondents (the correlation coefficient is -0.124, significant at the 0.05 significance level), thus meetings have a negative influence on respondents’ productivity. Frequency of meetings affect work time because it takes the time needed to work. Exactly 82.5% of respondents said meetings are too frequent, 40.3% said meetings take the time they need for other job responsibilities, 73.3% said meetings take the energy they need for other job responsibilities. Exactly 79.0% indicated that some meetings are not needed at work and 61.7% said some activities at meetings are not needed. Recommendations included the strategic planning of meetings to reduce frequency and time and the adoption of more flexible online forums and e-mails.

MSc. in Business Decision Management

Ghana Technology University Library

September, 2019

Dr. Mabel Oti-Boadi