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The relationship between time and identity has been intensively discussed by philosophers. They tried to figure out how identity related to time. An American psychiatrist Frederick T. Melges examined some cases in which the sense of time and of identity was impaired. His core thesis is that “the sense of identity is related to the continuity of temporal perspective, especially future time perspective” (Block, 1990, p. 256). Time and identity have many aspects and dimensions. For instance, there are personal identity, social identity, group identity, leader identity, organizational identity. Researchers have studied many aspects of identity. Nevertheless, many questions are still not answered. In the current work, we conduct an empirical research to clarify how role-playing repertoire of managerial identity related to psychological time. The question is what is my role as a manager and how it is related to psychological time. We have chosen managerial roles developed by Bazarov (2011). According to his concept, there are four primary roles for managers which are a commander, an organizator, an administrator and a supervisor. Participants will choose one of four roles themselves. There will be a description of each role so they make a choice according to their managerial identity. They also will fill other questionnaires such as Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (Zimbardo, Boyd, 1999) and Occupational Future Time Perspective of Zacher and Frese (2009). Some extra questionnaires will be added. Methods: We are planning to collect data from 120 managers and 120 non-managers. In the analysis will be used MANOVA, t-test, Kruskal-Wallis Test and Mann-Whitney U test. We will compare the role-playing repertoire of managerial identity with their psychological time and also compare the results of managers with non-managers.