This study addresses the value of both task- and team-focused processes in dealing with temporal diversity in teams. Particularly, we focus on team diversity in pacing styles (i.e., team members’ differences in how to distribute efforts over the available time in working toward deadlines). In a cross-sectional survey study of 38 consultancy teams, we examined the joint moderating effects of action planning and temporal familiarity on the relationship between pacing style diversity and team collaboration. Pacing style diversity tended to be negatively associated with team collaboration under most levels of action planning and temporal familiarity. Pacing style diversity and team collaboration related positively only when both action planning and temporal familiarity were high. This moderating effect was mediated by temporal consensus (i.e., team members’ shared understanding of the temporal aspects of executing collective tasks). Thus, the co-occurrence of action planning and temporal familiarity is particularly important for temporally heterogeneous teams to collaborate effectively by facilitating a shared perspective on the team’s temporal approach to the task.

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节奏风格多样性和团队协作：时间熟悉度和行动计划的调节作用。

本研究探讨了以任务为中心和以团队为中心的流程在处理团队中的时间多样性方面的价值。特别是，我们专注于团队节奏风格的多样性（即，团队成员在如何在可用时间内分配工作以争取截止日期方面的差异）。在对 38 个咨询团队的横断面调查研究中，我们研究了行动计划和时间熟悉度对节奏风格多样性和团队协作之间关系的联合调节作用。在大多数行动计划和时间熟悉程度下，节奏风格的多样性往往与团队合作呈负相关。只有当行动计划和时间熟悉度都很高时，节奏风格的多样性和团队协作才会呈正相关。这种调节作用是由时间共识介导的（即，团队成员对执行集体任务的时间方面的共同理解）。因此，行动计划和时间熟悉的同时发生对于时间异质团队通过促进团队对任务时间方法的共享观点来有效协作尤为重要。