ABSTRACT
Within a longstanding tradition of theoretical and empirical interest in “time” in the social sciences, yet limited attention to it in communication, Ballard and Seibold (2000, 2003, 2004a, 2004b, 2006) have conceptualized time as a social construction rooted in communication, proposed a model of members’ temporality in organizational workgroups, developed the Organizational Temporality Scale, and reported empirical associations between dimension of members’ experiences of time and more than a half-dozen variables of interest to organizational communication scholars. Their work integrates time as shared experiences (intersubjective sense), personal conceptions of time (subjective sense), as well as institutionally driven, formal temporal parameters on members’ work processes measured in clock time (objective sense).
