This article specifies the theoretical influence of future time perspective (FTP) on the behavior of the parties involved in organizational dispute resolution processes.
This study employed a novel qualitative systematic reinterpretation methodology. A software-assisted qualitative content analysis for the systematic reinterpretation of 141 academic publications on organizational conflicts, dispute resolution, and dispute system design processes was performed to elicit crucial points at which FTP that was not originally specified is theoretically emerged in those processes.
The sorted findings detail 829 critical points (themes) in those processes where FTP has theoretically emerged. The results confirm that FTP has a comprehensive theoretical presence (81.3%) in the discourse on organizational conflicts, dispute resolution and dispute system design processes. Furthermore, when the relevant parties’ FTP is operative, their conflict prevention approach is widespread, and the parties perceive workplace relationships and dispute resolution processes as dominant.
The novelty of this study is related to its effort to identify and diagnose theoretical situations within the discourse on organizational dispute resolution processes in which the effect of FTP (either positive or negative) on the present-time behavior of parties within those processes is demonstrated. This work addresses this issue through unique qualitative systematic reinterpretation, which differs from other types of research syntheses of secondary data.
