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Juggling and hopping: what does it mean to work polychronically?
June Cotte, S. RatneshwarPresents a conceptual framework for understanding the meanings of polychronic behavior for individuals. A “created” meaning perspective, arguing that cultural, social, and…
Polychronicity and the Inventory of Polychronic Values (IPV): The development of an instrument to measure a fundamental dimension of organizational culture
Allen C. Bluedorn, Thomas J. Kalliath, Michael J Strube, Gregg D. MartinThe ten‐item Inventory of Polychronic Values (IPV), a psychometric measure of polychronicity (the extent to which people in a culture prefer to be engaged in two or more tasks or…
Temporal elements of organizational culture and impact on firm performance
Marina H. OnkenExamines two temporal elements of organizational culture, polychronicity and speed values, and their effects on organizational performance. The study of these dimensions of…
The effects of individual time urgency on group polychronicity
Mary J. Waller, Robert C. Giambatista, Mary E. Zellmer‐BruhnRecent work concerning the effects of time on group behavior suggests that individuals’ time‐oriented behaviors may act as a catalyst or pacing mechanism for subsequent group…
Polychronicity and temporal dimensions of work in learning organizations
Charles BenabouStates that today, the corporate environment is characterized by complexity, uncertainty, contingency and evolution. In these conditions, the design of a learning organization…
A construct‐oriented analysis of individual‐level polychronicity
Jeffrey M. Conte, Tracey E. Rizzuto, Dirk D. SteinerThis paper provided construct validity evidence for polychronicity in two related studies. Study 1 assessed the relationship between individuals’ stated polychronicity preferences…
Time management and polychronicity: Comparisons, contrasts, and insights for the workplace
Carol Kaufman‐Scarborough, Jay D. LindquistThe goals of this investigation are to identify behaviors and attitudes that are predictive of an individual’s polychronic or monochronic time use, relating these findings to…
Applying the theory of reasoned action to the analysis of an individual’s polychronicity
Thomas E. SlocombeThe analysis of polychronicity at the cultural level is compared with the analysis of polychronicity at the level of the individual member of the culture. We suggest that a more…
Unpackaging the multiple aspects of time in polychronicity
David K. Palmer, F. David SchoormanResearch on polychronicity generally treats time use preference, context, and time tangibility as isomorphic variables that can be represented on a single continuum. An…
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