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“Huddling Up”: Improving Communication and Teamwork at an Entrepreneurial Startup With Workplace Huddles

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Jessie Lynn Olien, Eleanor Williams, Steven G. Rogelberg & Kelcie Grenier

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Olien, J., Williams, E., Rogelberg, S. & Grenier, K., (2019). “Huddling up”: Improving communication and teamwork at an entrepreneurial startup with workplace huddles. In SAGE Business Cases. 2020. 10.4135/9781526466815

Olien, Jessie Lynn, Eleanor Williams, Steven G. Rogelberg and Kelcie Grenier. "“Huddling Up”: Improving Communication and Teamwork at an Entrepreneurial Startup With Workplace Huddles." In SAGE Business Cases. SAGE Publications Ltd., 2020. 10.4135/9781526466815.

Olien, J, Williams, E, Rogelberg, S & Grenier, K 2019. “Huddling Up”: Improving Communication and Teamwork at an Entrepreneurial Startup With Workplace Huddles, In SAGE Business Cases, SAGE Publications Ltd., viewed 5/31/2020, 10.4135/9781526466815.

Olien, Jessie Lynn, et al. "“Huddling Up”: Improving Communication and Teamwork at an Entrepreneurial Startup With Workplace Huddles." SAGE Business Cases. SAGE Publications Ltd., 2020. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 5/31/2020.

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    This case focuses on events that took place at Green Technologies, an entrepreneurial startup that was purchased by a larger conglomerate. The case provides a real-world account of an incoming CEO’s implementation of workplace huddles as a means for addressing challenges that the startup’s employees were facing. Specifically, this case describes the CEO’s efforts to introduce, leverage, and empirically assess huddles’ effectiveness in facilitating positive organizational change. This case posits that the benefits and logistics of huddles make them an effective tool for dealing with organizational challenges during periods of transition and change and charges students with evaluating the efficacy of this organization’s use of huddles as an intervention.

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    Jessie Lynn Olien is a PhD student in the interdisciplinary Organizational Science program at UNC Charlotte. Her research primarily focuses on issues pertaining to workplace meetings, including their role in shaping everyday experiences, their restorative and destructive qualities, and their influence on both short- and long-term work outcomes.

    Eleanor “Lea” Williams is an Organizational Science PhD student at UNC Charlotte. Her research interests are primarily focused on workplace meetings—with a particular focus on multitasking during workplace meetings—as well as research methods. Lea also has applied interests and experiences; she has worked in various talent management and training/development roles at TIAA, Duke Energy, and Ingersoll Rand.

    Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg holds the title of Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte for distinguished national, international, and interdisciplinary contributions. He is a Professor of Organizational Science, Management, and Psychology as well as the Director of Organizational Science. He has over 100 publications and over 100 invited speeches/colloquiums addressing issues such as team effectiveness, leadership, engagement, health and employee well-being, meetings at work, and organizational research methods.

    Kelcie Grenier is a PhD student in the Organizational Science program at UNC Charlotte. Her research interests are primarily centered around diversity, perceived injustice and discrimination, and how particular contexts, such as meetings, can offer insight into these experiences.

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