How leaders respond to team time urgency diversity: A functional leadership perspective.

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Journal of Applied Psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-17 DOI:10.1037/apl0001399

Jiaxin Xue, Jinghao Zhang, Yuhui Li, Gerben S van der Vegt, Niannian Dong, Chenghao Men

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Abstract

Prior research on team time urgency diversity (TUD) has positioned team temporal leadership as a moderator of the relationship between TUD and team outcomes, suggesting that team temporal leadership may buffer TUD's risks or unlock its benefits. This perspective assumes that leaders naturally respond to TUD, yet it offers little insight into whether, why, and when they choose to do so. Drawing on functional leadership theory, we propose that TUD acts as a contextual trigger that may elicit team temporal leadership by generating unmet temporal needs, thereby motivating leaders to intervene. We further argue that leaders' own time urgency shapes these responses, such that the positive relationship between TUD and leaders' motivation to improve temporal functioning is stronger among leaders with higher time urgency, thereby leading to greater team temporal leadership. Results from a multiwave, multisource field study and two experiments consistently supported our proposed model. Together, our findings offer a more nuanced account of how leaders respond to temporal diversity and extend the broader diversity literature by reframing diversity as a trigger for leader actions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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领导者如何应对团队时间紧迫性的多样性：一个职能领导的视角。

先前关于团队时间紧迫性多样性（TUD）的研究将团队时间领导定位为TUD与团队结果之间关系的调节因子，表明团队时间领导可以缓冲TUD的风险或释放其收益。这种观点假设领导者自然会对TUD做出反应，但它对他们是否、为什么以及何时选择这样做几乎没有提供任何见解。利用功能领导理论，我们提出TUD作为一个情境触发器，可能通过产生未满足的时间需求来引发团队时间领导，从而激励领导者进行干预。我们进一步认为，领导者自身的时间紧迫性塑造了这些反应，因此，在时间紧迫性较高的领导者中，TUD与领导者改善时间功能的动机之间的正相关关系更强，从而导致更强的团队时间领导力。多波、多源现场研究和两个实验的结果一致支持我们提出的模型。总之，我们的研究结果为领导者如何应对时间多样性提供了更细致的解释，并通过将多样性重新定义为领导者行动的触发因素，扩展了更广泛的多样性文献。（PsycInfo数据库记录(c) 2026 APA，版权所有）。

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Journal of Applied Psychology Multiple-

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17.60

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6.10%

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175

期刊介绍： The Journal of Applied Psychology® focuses on publishing original investigations that contribute new knowledge and understanding to fields of applied psychology (excluding clinical and applied experimental or human factors, which are better suited for other APA journals). The journal primarily considers empirical and theoretical investigations that enhance understanding of cognitive, motivational, affective, and behavioral psychological phenomena in work and organizational settings. These phenomena can occur at individual, group, organizational, or cultural levels, and in various work settings such as business, education, training, health, service, government, or military institutions. The journal welcomes submissions from both public and private sector organizations, for-profit or nonprofit. It publishes several types of articles, including: 1.Rigorously conducted empirical investigations that expand conceptual understanding (original investigations or meta-analyses). 2.Theory development articles and integrative conceptual reviews that synthesize literature and generate new theories on psychological phenomena to stimulate novel research. 3.Rigorously conducted qualitative research on phenomena that are challenging to capture with quantitative methods or require inductive theory building.