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Communication-Related Organizational Structures and Work Group Members' Temporal Experience

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We explore how differences in three communication-related structures central to organizational work—coordination methods, workplace technologies, and feedback cycles—influence organizational members’ experience of twelve dimensions of time—flexibility, linearity, pace, punctuality, delay, scheduling, dynamism, separation, scarcity, urgency, and present and future time perspectives. Informed by Bourdieu’s practice theory, we frame this work in terms of the mutually constitutive relationship between time and communication and the need to examine social structures that are linked to the practical demands of members’ day-to-day activities. Results reveal that differences in coordination method, technology type, and feedback cycle characteristics help to shape members’ experience of nine dimensions of time—flexibility, linearity, pace, punctuality, delay, scheduling, urgency, and future and present time perspectives. Consistent with previous research and our hypothesis, members of work groups whose feedback cycles were characterized by an extended task completion interval and high task variability exhibited a greater future-time perspective than group members whose feedback cycles were characterized by brief intervals and low task variability.

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Ballard, Dawna. and Seibold, David. "Communication-Related Organizational Structures and Work Group Members' Temporal Experience" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Marriott Hotel, San Diego, CA, May 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p111949_index.html>

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Ballard, D. I. and Seibold, D. R. , 2003-05-27 "Communication-Related Organizational Structures and Work Group Members' Temporal Experience" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Marriott Hotel, San Diego, CA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p111949_index.html

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Abstract: We explore how differences in three communication-related structures central to organizational work—coordination methods, workplace technologies, and feedback cycles—influence organizational members’ experience of twelve dimensions of time—flexibility, linearity, pace, punctuality, delay, scheduling, dynamism, separation, scarcity, urgency, and present and future time perspectives. Informed by Bourdieu’s practice theory, we frame this work in terms of the mutually constitutive relationship between time and communication and the need to examine social structures that are linked to the practical demands of members’ day-to-day activities. Results reveal that differences in coordination method, technology type, and feedback cycle characteristics help to shape members’ experience of nine dimensions of time—flexibility, linearity, pace, punctuality, delay, scheduling, urgency, and future and present time perspectives. Consistent with previous research and our hypothesis, members of work groups whose feedback cycles were characterized by an extended task completion interval and high task variability exhibited a greater future-time perspective than group members whose feedback cycles were characterized by brief intervals and low task variability.

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Organizational Communication Structures and Time 1 Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES AND TIME Communication-Related Organizational Structures and Work Group Members’ Temporal Experience: The Effects of Interdependence Type of Technology and Feedback Cycle on Members’ Construals and Enactments of Time Organizational Communication Structures and Time 2 Communication-Related Organizational Structures and Work Group Members’ Temporal Experience: The Effects of Interdependence Type of Technology and Feedback Cycle on Members’ Construals and Enactments of Time Abstract We explore how differences in three communication-related
and its theoretical underpinnings (McGrath’s model of social entrainment) see XXXXX and XXXXX (2001). 2 Because communication structures vary with particular job types to avoid systematic error associated with related demographic variables we explored several demographic issues identified as covariates in the literature. 3 Respondents’ age education and income level showed small but significant correlations with several temporal dimensions (age: .42 to .15; education: .11 to .14; income: .36 to .12). Eta values demonstrated weak relationships between gender and


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