Employees working for laissez-faire leaders might think time theft is just part of the job.

Despite being a costly and pervasive organizational issue, time theft has long been misunderstood in scholarship, and is conceptualized in different ways by academics and practitioners. To work towards clearer and consolidated understanding of time theft, Crystal Harold, Biyun Hu (PhD ’20) and their co-author develop a comprehensive definition of time theft—“the purposeful failure to […]