Impact of Temporal Diversity on Team Process and Team Effectiveness.

Abstract

Teams are increasingly important in today's business world. Our research heeds the call to go beyond "surface-level" demographics like age and gender to study one form of "deep-level diversity;" specifically, temporal diversity. Here, we examine how six individual temporal characteristics impact team process and effectiveness: polychronicity, time urgency, temporal depth and focus, punctuality, and scheduling/deadline preferences.