Work Interrupted: A Closer Look at the Role of Interruptions in Organizational Life

By Quintus Jett, Jennifer M. George. 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Social Psychology

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Multiple Tasks' and Multiple Goals' Effect on Creativity: Forced Incubation or Just a Distraction? (2008, background): “Alternatively, Madjar, Shalley / Multiple Tasks and Multiple Goals 787 incubation may serve as a break that may represent time away from the task to rejuvenate and potentially come back to the problem with a fresh lens (Jett & George, 2003).”
Office Chit-Chat as a Social Ritual: The Uplifting Yet Distracting Effects of Daily Small Talk at Work (2020, background): “On the other hand, we expect that small talk acts as a distraction that disturbs employees ’ focus on and engagement in their work (Jett & George, 2003), which may subsequently aid well-being by allowing for restorative breaksyet com-promiseOCBduetoatimedeficiency.”
Testing the Connectivity Paradox: Linking Teleworkers' Communication Media Use to Social Presence, Stress from Interruptions, and Organizational Identification (2012, background): “Building upon research outlining the negative consequences of meetings (Luong & Rogelberg, 2005) and interruptions (Jett & George, 2003), an original six-item scale was used to represent employees’ anxiety, frustration, and stress due to meetings and interruptions.”
Just more of the same, or different? An integrative theoretical framework for the study of cumulative interruptions at work (2015, background): “In this respect, interruptions are different from voluntary breaks, which occur after (sub)actions are closed and mental resources have been released (Jett & George, 2003).”
Training Engagement Theory: A Multilevel Perspective on the Effectiveness of Work-Related Training (2018, background): “…of regulatory resources and motivation required for persisting in training because employees are often interrupted while completing online courses, which can lead to the perception that one has more responsibilities than time available to meet them (Jett & George, 2003; Sitzmann et al., 2010).”
Pardon the Interruption: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda for Research on Work Interruptions (2019, background): “For instance, interruptions can at times provide key information that boosts interrupted employees’ goal progress, thus positively affecting the self-regulatory pathway (e.g., Jett & George, 2003).”
Interrupting the Workplace: Examining Stressors in an Information Technology Context (2015, background): “Social presence is the communicator’s sense of awareness of the 5 interacting partner’s awareness (Gefen & Straub, 2004; Sproull & Kiesler, 1986).”
Why is it so hard to do my work? The challenge of attention residue when switching between work tasks (2009, background): “While interruptions have some beneficial properties, existing research shows that they largely hurt productivity (Jett & George, 2003; Speier, Valacich, & Vessey, 1999; Tetard, 1999), as people find it difficult to get back into the flow of the interrupted activity.”