Time Pressure Time pressure is the perception that time is scarce or limited.

According to Beevis (1999) people experience time pressure when the time required to execute tasks is more than 70% of the total time available for the tasks. Beevis (1999) suggested that people experience high time pressure when 85% of the available time is required to execute the tasks. In this case performance is often impaired in that some tasks are not well executed (J.A.Schreuder, 2011). At group level when time pressure increases it focus on team performance. This narrow focus of attention that often manifests as a restricted information exchange is due to a filtering process (Kelly and Loving, 2004). Groups working under time pressure attend to all of the information available but then selectively discuss only information that seems especially relevant (Kelly and Loving, 2004). They also found that under high time pressure group members see task completion as their main interaction objective, and the group attempts to reach consensus and complete the task as quickly as possible, but at the sacrifice of quality. Groups under mild or no time pressure can, in contrast, consider a wider set of task features, devote their resources to performing on the task as well as possible. Other researchers (e.g. van der Kleij, 2009; De Dreu, 2003;Durham et al., 2000; Karau and Kelly, 1992; Kelly and Loving, 2004) indicated the following consequences of time pressure. At the individual level, time pressure leads to (1) faster performance rates, because people stop considering multiple alternatives, (2) lower performance quality, due to the engagement in superficial rather than thorough and systematic processing of information.