 Objective View of Time and Temporality: Time as a Tool for OrganizingKätlin Pulk ()
Chapter 2 in Time and Temporality in Organisations, 2022, pp 17-65 from Springer Abstract: Abstract This chapter focuses on clock time and its role in organizing social life and organizational life. Clock time, rooted in Newtonian physics, stands for temporal realism. From a temporal realist perspective, time is viewed as real, objective, and measurable, while temporality concerns such objective features of time as tempo, speed, duration, frequency, acceleration, timing, and so on. In this chapter, I give a short overview of the emergence of global standardized clock time and its merits as a tool for organizing. I will continue with some of the less positive aspects of the relationship between clock time and the views of reality. I will discuss the importance of clock time in organizations emphasizing its role in coordinating, synchronizing, and entraining activities with different temporal cycles. I discuss some of the potential negative aspects of an unbalanced emphasis on clock time, such as speed, time compression or intensification, and chronocentrism. Finally, I underline some limitations of clock time that may arise if applied in social life. Keywords: Clock time; Standardized time; Temporal realism; Chronological/chronometric time; Entrainment; Time pressure (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-90696-2_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90696-2_2 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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