Anecdotal evidence in popular literature abounds about how perceiving that others have wasted one’s time is a common workplace experience with potentially negative consequences. Yet, there is a dearth of rigorous empirical research into the subjective nature of this psychological experience and its effect on employees. A lack of construct clarity and the absence of a validated measure to assess perceptions of having one’s time wasted have held scholarship back. To stimulate research on this topic, building on the recent focus on subjective time in the literature on time and adopting an entity-based approach, we offer a definition of wasted time perceptions and develop and validate a measure of this construct. Our five-item measure of wasted time perceptions demonstrated strong psychometric properties across seven independent samples. Further, building on frustration–aggression theory, we demonstrate that wasted time perceptions predict core affective and behavioral outcomes in the management literature, above and beyond previously established predictors. We also show that our new measure is easily adaptable to, and differentiates across, different focal entities (e.g., boss, coworker, subordinate, customer) relevant to organizational scholars. Implications and future research directions are discussed.

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别浪费我的时间！浪费时间感知量表的开发和验证


流行文学中的轶事证据比比皆是，表明认为别人浪费了自己的时间是一种常见的职场经历，可能会带来负面后果。然而，对于这种心理体验的主观性质及其对员工的影响，缺乏严格的实证研究。缺乏结构清晰度和缺乏有效的措施来评估人们对浪费时间的看法，阻碍了学术研究。为了促进这一主题的研究，基于最近关于时间的文献中对主观时间的关注并采用基于实体的方法，我们提供了浪费时间感知的定义，并开发和验证了这种结构的衡量标准。我们对浪费时间感知的五项测量在七个独立样本中展示了强大的心理测量特性。此外，基于挫败-攻击理论，我们证明了浪费时间的感知可以预测管理文献中的核心情感和行为结果，这超出了之前建立的预测因素。我们还表明，我们的新衡量标准很容易适应并区分与组织学者相关的不同焦点实体（例如老板、同事、下属、客户）。讨论了影响和未来的研究方向。