The Impact of Temporal Schemata: Understanding When Individuals Entrain Versus Resist or Create Temporal Structure

As the pace of contemporary work increases, organizations seek to coordinate their employees’ efforts, particularly through the temporal coordination of pace and rhythm. Yet, little research has examined individual cognition, affect, and behavior in response to the “pull” of entrainment to an organization’s temporal structure. In this paper, we develop theory highlighting how individuals use temporal schemata—cognitive frameworks about time—to...