Allison Westmeyer
Research Mentor(s): Elizabeth Trinh
Mentor Department: Management and Organizations
Authors: Ally Westmeyer, Elizabeth Trinh
Session: Session 2 (10:00am – 10:50am)
Presentation Type: Poster 86
Abstract
The title “leader†can be used to describe people in a variety of different fields and positions. A leader does not always have to be the CEO of a multimillion dollar company or the founder of a new software business, but it can also be the manager at your local cafe or library. The purpose of this study was to explore how people in all different kinds of leadership positions define and explain their relationship with time management. There were many research assistants that contributed virtual interviews to this study, but this specific project will look at 6. These 6 interviews were completed via zoom or phone call and followed a set of interview protocol questions on busyness. The 6 participants spanned from the CMO of companies like Longchamp and Forbes Magazine to local nonprofit campaign leaders. Each interview was unique in their description of their relation with busyness with some people finding busy to have a positive connotation and others to have a completely opposite outlook. However, some trends that were evident among all interviews were that leaders often stated that they experience feelings of overbusyness quite often, but rarely feel that they are not busy enough. People also often resonate with the idea that busyness is cyclical, meaning that some periods in time are more busy than others. In all, this study provided an overarching view of how busyness is perceived in the business sphere.
