The Effect Of Individual Perceptions of Deadlines on Team Performance

Based on a review of existing literature, we propose that two time-oriented individual differences—time urgency and time perspective—influence team members' perceptions of deadlines. We present propositions describing how time urgency and time perspective affect individuals' deadline perceptions and subsequent deadline-oriented behaviors and how different deadline perceptions and behaviors among team members affect the ability of teams to meet deadlines. We end with implications for existing theory and future research.

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