Time Boundaries, Task Commitment and the Illusion of Group Immortality

The management of time boundaries is an important task facing groups at work. The difficulties groups have managing their time boundaries, however, may not simply be a matter of becoming more committed to the task. Rather, the group may engage in a variety of behaviors that reflect an unconscious wish that the group, and its members by extension, can experience immortality by remaining committed to the task and ignoring established time boundaries.