HOW PROJECT TEAMS ACHIEVE COORDINATED ACTION: A MODEL OF SHARED COGNITIONS ON TIME

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Research on Managing Groups and Teams

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Title:	HOW PROJECT TEAMS ACHIEVE COORDINATED ACTION: A MODEL OF SHARED COGNITIONS ON TIME
Author(s):	Josette M.P Gevers, Christel G Rutte, Wendelien van Eerde
Volume:	6 Editor(s): Sally Blount ISBN: 978-0-76231-093-7 eISBN: 978-1-84950-259-7
Citation:	Josette M.P Gevers, Christel G Rutte, Wendelien van Eerde (2004), HOW PROJECT TEAMS ACHIEVE COORDINATED ACTION: A MODEL OF SHARED COGNITIONS ON TIME, in Sally Blount (ed.) Time in Groups (Research on Managing Groups and Teams, Volume 6), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.67-85
DOI:	10.1016/S1534-0856(03)06004-3 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	This chapter addresses how project teams achieve coordinated action, given the diversity in how team members may perceive and value time. Although synchronization of task activities may occur spontaneously through the nonconscious process of entrainment, some work conditions demand that team members pay greater conscious attention to time to coordinate their efforts. We propose that shared cognitions on time – the agreement among team members on the appropriate temporal approach to their collective task – will contribute to the coordination of team members’ actions, particularly in circumstances where nonconscious synchronization of action patterns is unlikely. We suggest that project teams may establish shared cognitions on time through goal setting, temporal planning, and temporal reflexivity.