Meeting Culture of Abmart Inc.

Organization Description

Abmart Inc. was started in 2007 by experienced life science entrepreneurs returned from overseas. With 220 employees, Abmart is one of the largest and fastest growing biotechnology companies in China with a 30,000 square feet facility consisting of production and animal facilities in Shanghai. Abmart’s goal is to enable every protein to have a standard set of monoclonal antibodies optimal for all possible applications. With SEAL™ technology, developed in 2011 and a scalable monoclonal antibody development process, Abmart will deliver even lower cost and faster discovery time for monoclonal antibodies to more than 1000 customers worldwide.

Meeting Style

There are basically three different styles of Abmart’s meetings: ‘information share,’ ‘creative discussion,’ and ‘consensus decision.’ The first two are the dominant forms.
An ‘information share’ style of meeting consists of information flowing in one direction only, either ‘up’ to leadership from employees, or ‘down’ from senior management to employees. Requests for clarification can be entertained during this type of meeting, but there’s no real debate or discussion. In Abmart, every weekday afternoon, there will be a different department having its weekly information share meeting. For example, Monday, Sales Department will have their internal meeting. Each sales man needs to give report to the manager of department. Tuesday, Customer Service Department will discuss their last week’s task and assignments of this week. As the same, Wednesday will be Operation Department’s time. And then, Production Department, Research and Development Department are on Thursday and Friday. At the end of every month, every department will directly report to Abmart’s CEO and COO. Every two months, there will be a general meeting of all the staffs to announce the