Title
"Is It Already 4 A.M. In Your Time Zone?": Focus Immersion And Temporal Dissociation In Virtual Teams
Keywords
Focus immersion; ICT; Subjective performance; Temporal dissociation; Virtual teams
Abstract
Using a sample of students (N = 118) engaged in an 8-week project to build an e-book chapter, this study finds that cognitive absorption impacts interpersonal conflict and team performance. In particular, virtual teams with aggregated higher levels of focus immersion and temporal dissociation (dimensions of cognitive absorption) demonstrate higher levels of performance and interpersonal conflict. Furthermore, there is an interaction effect between focus immersion and temporal dissociation that moderates the impact on performance and interpersonal conflict. The teams with aggregated high levels of focus immersion and aggregated low levels of temporal dissociation demonstrated the best performance and lowest levels of interpersonal conflict. The authors also found that individuals with high levels of focus immersion preferred asynchronous communication media, whereas individuals with low levels of temporal dissociation preferred synchronous communication media. The implications are discussed. © 2007 Sage Publications.
Publication Date
2-1-2007
Publication Title
Small Group Research
Volume
38
Issue
1
Number of Pages
98-129
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1177/1046496406297042
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
33846562957 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33846562957
STARS Citation
Rutkowski, Anne Françoise; Saunders, Carol; Vogel, Douglas; and Van Genuchten, Michiel, ""Is It Already 4 A.M. In Your Time Zone?": Focus Immersion And Temporal Dissociation In Virtual Teams" (2007). Scopus Export 2000s. 6935.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/6935