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Organizational behavior implications of the congruence between preferred polychronicity and experienced work‐unit polychronicity
Author(s) -
Slocombe Thomas E.,
Bluedorn Allen C.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199901)20:1<75::aid-job872>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - psychology , congruence (geometry) , social psychology , supervisor , regression analysis , organizational commitment , multilevel model , strategic business unit , marketing , management , business , statistics , mathematics , economics
This research hypothesizes that greater congruence between preferred polychronicity (the extent to which an individual prefers to be involved with several tasks simultaneously) and experienced work‐unit polychronicity (the polychronic behaviors and preferences of the supervisor and co‐workers) will be associated with higher levels of (1) three components of organizational commitment (willingness to exert effort, desire to remain a member of the organization, and belief in and acceptance of organizational goals), (2) the individual's perceived performance evaluation by the supervisor and co‐workers, and (3) the individual's perceived fairness of the performance evaluation. Based on a sample of employed business school graduates, the results indicate that polychronic congruence is significantly related to these variables in the predicted direction. The use of polynomial regression analysis reveals additional characteristics of the relationships that would not have been available from the analysis of squared‐difference scores. The findings support the position that polychronicity and other temporal variables are important factors in organizational research. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.