During a lectureship at the University of Amsterdam I completed my Ph.D with a dissertation about the long term development of meeting behaviour in 1994. Right after that I started my own consultancy specialized in improving meetings in companies and other organizations. The last five years I worked at the University of Amsterdam again, teaching courses about Civilization and Complexity. Phone: 0031653846897 Address: Westerdok 838, 1013BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Holding Meetings. Courtization and Parliamentarization. The way people hold and used to hold meet... more Holding Meetings. Courtization and Parliamentarization. The way people hold and used to hold meetings, in Dutch Vergaderen’, i.e. to gather, to confer and to decide on their common future, is a suitable object for further investigation into the civilizing process in the wake of Norbert Elias. The transformation of warrior into parliamentary upper classes from the Middle Ages onwards is part of a development, in the course of which fighting with words replaced more and more fighting with weapons. Two successive stages can be distinguished within this civilizing process: courtization and parliamentarization. On the basis of prescriptions for speaking found in manner books and the precepts of manuals and textbooks for holding meetings the authors trace the development of two more distinguished and regulated modes of speaking: speaking in predominantly public meetings and speaking in predominantly private conversations.
... 4 The Impact of Elias's Work on Organisational Resea... more ... 4 The Impact of Elias's Work on Organisational Research and Management Development Ralph Stacey 6 ... THE IMPACT OF ELIAS'S WORK ON ORGANISA-TIONAL RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOP-MENT Ralph Stacey University of Hertfordshire ...
The meetingization of society as a central aspect of civilizing processes is the theme of this ar... more The meetingization of society as a central aspect of civilizing processes is the theme of this article. This term refers to a long-term social process: as larger numbers of people become mutually dependent over larger areas and/or differences in power decrease between people, an increased number of problems needs to be solved through talking and decision-making in meetings which require an ever-increasingly precise, more equal and more embracing regulation of impulses and short-lived affects. This ‘compulsion to meet’ is less well developed when the networks of mutual dependence are smaller and less stable, and/or the balances of power are more unequal.
Part 1 Introduction: meeting behaviour and civilization the development of the concept of meeting... more Part 1 Introduction: meeting behaviour and civilization the development of the concept of meeting. Part 2 Meetings in a military-agrarian society: the militarization and demilitarization of meetings the courtization of meetings. Part 3 Meetings during the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society: the emergence of a Protestant meeting order the formation of the first meeting estate in Europe. Part 4 Meeting in an industrializing and industrialized societies: development and spread of parliamentary manners the professionalization of meeting manners epilogue - changing meeting behaviour as an aspect of civilizing processes.
Holding Meetings. Courtization and Parliamentarization. The way people hold and used to hold meet... more Holding Meetings. Courtization and Parliamentarization. The way people hold and used to hold meetings, in Dutch Vergaderen’, i.e. to gather, to confer and to decide on their common future, is a suitable object for further investigation into the civilizing process in the wake of Norbert Elias. The transformation of warrior into parliamentary upper classes from the Middle Ages onwards is part of a development, in the course of which fighting with words replaced more and more fighting with weapons. Two successive stages can be distinguished within this civilizing process: courtization and parliamentarization. On the basis of prescriptions for speaking found in manner books and the precepts of manuals and textbooks for holding meetings the authors trace the development of two more distinguished and regulated modes of speaking: speaking in predominantly public meetings and speaking in predominantly private conversations.
Many regular studies of meetings and meeting behavior show the following features. They are hodie... more Many regular studies of meetings and meeting behavior show the following features. They are hodiecentric or today-centred, taking as immutable the meeting behavior as it is now. They are oriented to Western societies and predominantly aimed at workplace meetings. Furthermore, the observations are exclusively limited to adults, especially men. These assumptions are taken for granted but impede arriving at an adequate approach to - changing - meeting behavior and meeting problems. As far as we know, humans have always held meetings but not always in the same way. The ways they behave in meetings are for the most part socially shaped and in modified forms transmitted from generation to generation by imitation and conscious learning. Meeting rules and manners, results of collective learning processes, continue to be considered effective solutions of ever recurring problems. Children are not born as professional meeting-holders. In the course of their lives when they sit together, they learn from other people how to behave, to speak and to decide about their common future. They pass through some of the processes their society has experienced in its long history. Meeting research or meeting science has to deal with long term psycho-social processes in order to understand actual meeting behavior as a moment or phase in long-lasting processes and subsequently to diagnose actual meeting problems more adequately.
Holding Meetings. Courtization and Parliamentarization. The way people hold and used to hold meet... more Holding Meetings. Courtization and Parliamentarization. The way people hold and used to hold meetings, in Dutch Vergaderen’, i.e. to gather, to confer and to decide on their common future, is a suitable object for further investigation into the civilizing process in the wake of Norbert Elias. The transformation of warrior into parliamentary upper classes from the Middle Ages onwards is part of a development, in the course of which fighting with words replaced more and more fighting with weapons. Two successive stages can be distinguished within this civilizing process: courtization and parliamentarization. On the basis of prescriptions for speaking found in manner books and the precepts of manuals and textbooks for holding meetings the authors trace the development of two more distinguished and regulated modes of speaking: speaking in predominantly public meetings and speaking in predominantly private conversations.
... 4 The Impact of Elias's Work on Organisational Resea... more ... 4 The Impact of Elias's Work on Organisational Research and Management Development Ralph Stacey 6 ... THE IMPACT OF ELIAS'S WORK ON ORGANISA-TIONAL RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOP-MENT Ralph Stacey University of Hertfordshire ...
The meetingization of society as a central aspect of civilizing processes is the theme of this ar... more The meetingization of society as a central aspect of civilizing processes is the theme of this article. This term refers to a long-term social process: as larger numbers of people become mutually dependent over larger areas and/or differences in power decrease between people, an increased number of problems needs to be solved through talking and decision-making in meetings which require an ever-increasingly precise, more equal and more embracing regulation of impulses and short-lived affects. This ‘compulsion to meet’ is less well developed when the networks of mutual dependence are smaller and less stable, and/or the balances of power are more unequal.
Part 1 Introduction: meeting behaviour and civilization the development of the concept of meeting... more Part 1 Introduction: meeting behaviour and civilization the development of the concept of meeting. Part 2 Meetings in a military-agrarian society: the militarization and demilitarization of meetings the courtization of meetings. Part 3 Meetings during the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society: the emergence of a Protestant meeting order the formation of the first meeting estate in Europe. Part 4 Meeting in an industrializing and industrialized societies: development and spread of parliamentary manners the professionalization of meeting manners epilogue - changing meeting behaviour as an aspect of civilizing processes.
Holding Meetings. Courtization and Parliamentarization. The way people hold and used to hold meet... more Holding Meetings. Courtization and Parliamentarization. The way people hold and used to hold meetings, in Dutch Vergaderen’, i.e. to gather, to confer and to decide on their common future, is a suitable object for further investigation into the civilizing process in the wake of Norbert Elias. The transformation of warrior into parliamentary upper classes from the Middle Ages onwards is part of a development, in the course of which fighting with words replaced more and more fighting with weapons. Two successive stages can be distinguished within this civilizing process: courtization and parliamentarization. On the basis of prescriptions for speaking found in manner books and the precepts of manuals and textbooks for holding meetings the authors trace the development of two more distinguished and regulated modes of speaking: speaking in predominantly public meetings and speaking in predominantly private conversations.
Many regular studies of meetings and meeting behavior show the following features. They are hodie... more Many regular studies of meetings and meeting behavior show the following features. They are hodiecentric or today-centred, taking as immutable the meeting behavior as it is now. They are oriented to Western societies and predominantly aimed at workplace meetings. Furthermore, the observations are exclusively limited to adults, especially men. These assumptions are taken for granted but impede arriving at an adequate approach to - changing - meeting behavior and meeting problems. As far as we know, humans have always held meetings but not always in the same way. The ways they behave in meetings are for the most part socially shaped and in modified forms transmitted from generation to generation by imitation and conscious learning. Meeting rules and manners, results of collective learning processes, continue to be considered effective solutions of ever recurring problems. Children are not born as professional meeting-holders. In the course of their lives when they sit together, they learn from other people how to behave, to speak and to decide about their common future. They pass through some of the processes their society has experienced in its long history. Meeting research or meeting science has to deal with long term psycho-social processes in order to understand actual meeting behavior as a moment or phase in long-lasting processes and subsequently to diagnose actual meeting problems more adequately.
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As far as we know, humans have always held meetings but not always in the same way. The ways they behave in meetings are for the most part socially shaped and in modified forms transmitted from generation to generation by imitation and conscious learning. Meeting rules and manners, results of collective learning processes, continue to be considered effective solutions of ever recurring problems.
Children are not born as professional meeting-holders. In the course of their lives when they sit together, they learn from other people how to behave, to speak and to decide about their common future. They pass through some of the processes their society has experienced in its long history.
Meeting research or meeting science has to deal with long term psycho-social processes in order to understand actual meeting behavior as a moment or phase in long-lasting processes and subsequently to diagnose actual meeting problems more adequately.
As far as we know, humans have always held meetings but not always in the same way. The ways they behave in meetings are for the most part socially shaped and in modified forms transmitted from generation to generation by imitation and conscious learning. Meeting rules and manners, results of collective learning processes, continue to be considered effective solutions of ever recurring problems.
Children are not born as professional meeting-holders. In the course of their lives when they sit together, they learn from other people how to behave, to speak and to decide about their common future. They pass through some of the processes their society has experienced in its long history.
Meeting research or meeting science has to deal with long term psycho-social processes in order to understand actual meeting behavior as a moment or phase in long-lasting processes and subsequently to diagnose actual meeting problems more adequately.