{"id":204,"date":"2018-11-16T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T23:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/?p=204"},"modified":"2018-11-16T15:28:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T23:28:16","slug":"dont_meet_on_my_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/2018\/11\/16\/dont_meet_on_my_time\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t meet on my time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a response to Sea Breeze&#8217;s blog post, as a response to Avisha.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YMZDHLCThE\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/seabreeze\/2018\/11\/16\/blog-7-1-response-to-avisha-advancing-organization-by-conflict-resolution\/\">Blog 7.1 Response to Avisha Advancing Organization by Conflict Resolution<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Blog 7.1 Response to Avisha Advancing Organization by Conflict Resolution&#8221; &#8212; Sea Breeze\" src=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/seabreeze\/2018\/11\/16\/blog-7-1-response-to-avisha-advancing-organization-by-conflict-resolution\/embed\/#?secret=BwGEiyMhON#?secret=YMZDHLCThE\" data-secret=\"YMZDHLCThE\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What Sea Breeze has mentioned in her blog post is one of my\u00a0pet peeves in terms of how organizational leaders do not value an employee&#8217;s time.\u00a0 Sea Breeze in her post mentioned:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In public education, all of our meetings happen outside of our work day on our free time after school is out. This is one grey area that I do not feel is right. Teachers should get paid to attend meetings that go outside of our scheduled work hours&#8221; (Sea Breeze, 2018).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-208\" src=\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/files\/2018\/11\/hcnvox7dtfw-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/files\/2018\/11\/hcnvox7dtfw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/files\/2018\/11\/hcnvox7dtfw-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/files\/2018\/11\/hcnvox7dtfw-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/files\/2018\/11\/hcnvox7dtfw.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I realize the idea behind a manager&#8217;s or leader&#8217;s decision to arrange for work meetings could be born out of practicality and necessity rather than being mean-spirited.\u00a0 \u00a0There are only limited hours in a workday and it is already occupied by regular tasks and responsibility.\u00a0 So the logical choice for the manager is to arrange meetings that are outside of those hours.\u00a0 In a similar example, my wife works at a medical imaging organization and they often arrange staff meetings and medical rounds during lunch hour.\u00a0 Staff who attend these meetings will be paid for their time as well as permitted to have their lunch during the meeting.\u00a0 However, then the staff members will lose their\u00a0required meal-break, a time that is personal and potentially required for someone to work at a high capacity.<\/p>\n<p>What managers and leaders fail to realize is these type of arrangements is a way of disvaluing staff member&#8217;s personal time.\u00a0 It is the organization saying, &#8220;my time is more important than yours&#8221; and so the employees must make the sacrifice in their own schedule, rather than adjusting the work schedule to accommodate work-related meetings.\u00a0 This will essentially negatively affect staff morale and to lead to resentment from staff and more disengagement.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, when managers and leaders are scheduling mandatory meetings within paid work hours, it will increase staff engagement and attendance of these meetings and also reinforce the importance of participation\u00a0and how the organization is making this a priority rather than normally scheduled work.\u00a0 \u00a0In some ways, this will also be an incentive for staff members, acting as a reward system (Galbraith, 2014).\u00a0 What I tell my wife with regards to the practices of her organization is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Imagine if your company decides to close the clinic early by booking down a few patients and have your paid staff meeting during the last hour of the day.\u00a0 Does that not make you feel valued as an employee? Does it not say to you the company rather puts employee&#8217;s time first rather than making money?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe organizations who strive to be effective companies should consider the value of time and how that could potentially affect the organization&#8217;s morale and health in the workplace.\u00a0 The transformational\u00a0servant leader would prioritize staff member&#8217;s needs and determine how that can be aligned with organizational priorities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>Galbraith, J. R. (2014).\u00a0<em>Designing organizations: Strategy, structure, and process at the business unit and enterprise levels<\/em>\u00a0(3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0ed.).\u00a0 San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a response to Sea Breeze&#8217;s blog post, as a response to Avisha. Blog 7.1 Response to Avisha Advancing Organization by Conflict Resolution What Sea Breeze has mentioned in her blog post is one of my\u00a0pet peeves in terms of how organizational leaders do not value an employee&#8217;s time.\u00a0 Sea Breeze in her post &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/2018\/11\/16\/dont_meet_on_my_time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t meet on my time!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":960,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-education","category-ldrs501","category-post-7-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chiefanalyzerofthings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}