CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

        Time is an important asset to an organization and its efficient usage is a key role to the manager. Unlike energy, money and skill, time by no means returns nor be able to be recreated. Wilkin Sona advocate that, “begin to managed and invest time, it could be the best speculation you will ever make for yourself and your organization.” Time is capital, when it is saved it result into saving of fixed overhead cost reducing the final total and per unit cost of output. It is debatable whether time can be saved and invested. JitendraM.Mishra and Prabhakar Mishra hold an opposite view. According to them, time is an outstanding resource, it cannot be saved; it can only be spent wisely. Time is a non- renewable resource and once it is gone, one cannot recover it. Time is predetermined and identical for everyone. It elapses at a standardized rate. Time may be divided into two that is commitment time and discretional time, but only the discretional time can be managed. With this in mine, it makes sense to make the best use of the available time by prioritizing and doing the more important activities first. H. Baker and Steven Holmberg have also opinioned, “time management is really self- management”. The objective is not to become super-efficient or super-productive. Time should be used to achieve one’s objectives, to work matters, not harder, as the saying goes “time management requires self-management in terms of change of habits, perception, attitudes. This change is difficult. It requires efforts, patience, commitment and a willingness to change. To effectively manage time employees need to have good time management skills. Time management is defined by DeJanasz et al. (2006, p84) as “the ability to allocate our time and resources to accomplishing our objectives”. Time management try to come out with the most efficient manner in which to utilize the time that employees have available. Time is an infinite commodity and it

        Proper use may increase employee performance in an organization. To properly manage time, one needs to know the levels of important that each activities holds. According to the pickle jar theory, we are supposed to do the important things first and then move to the least important things and finally if we have the time, we can do the unimportant things. Also Vilfredo Pareto an Italian economist brought the 80-20 rule in what we call the Pareto principle. The 80-20 rule could be applied everywhere time plays a major role to uplift productivity and the success of organization. If one considers all the things he does the entire day, you will actually find out that it the 20% of your work that produces net result. Thus employees should try different ways that will allow them to effectively manage the minor portion. Within the limited time (20%), you have to categorize your work and activities for achieving the goal in your life. Business owners need employees that are able to get the job done, because employee performance is critical to the overall success of the organization. Business leaders need to understand the key benefits of employee performance so that they can develop consistent and objective method for evaluating employees. Doing so help determines strength, weaknesses and potential managerial gaps in the business organization. Although performance evaluation are never fun, they help business leaders determine performance levels for each employee. Time is the most precious resources in business and society, unlike alternatives resources like labor and capital. However, few organizations really know how time is an important resource. This study is out to investigate the connection between time management and job performance. Time management helps improve employee productivity, makes jobs easier, employees will perform tasks efficiently, help employee attain the necessary tasks and finally to record and guide the organization toward achieving its goals. Cordiner (1990) says that effective impact of time management is everything in every viable organization. There exists variety of techniques that organization can employ to ensure effective and efficient impact management of time by employees to

         Enhance it productivity. This study is an attempt to identity those techniques and how the impact of time management enhances an employee performance in an organization.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

        The problem of time management has become an issue of great concern in most organization today, as many managers do not know what to do to overcome it and some are still in doubt with what method to use to effectively manage their time to improve their employee performance. This study is concerned with the impact of time management on employee performance specifically in the University of Buea. The performance of an organization will depend on how well its employees can effectively utilized it available time in their various activities. Also, most organizations tend to experience the problem of management of time in what is set in motion to achieve.Cordiner (1990) says that effective time management is everything every viable organization can employ to ensure effective, efficient management of time by employees to enhance productivity. Stan Mack (2019) noticed that poor time management have a detrimental effect on employee performance in an organization of which the University of Buea is not an exception. In view of this, this study is an attempt to identify and assess those techniques that will help employees in the University of Buea to improve on their time management skills for higher performance. Thus the study intends to find out the role of time management or the absence of it in achieving employee’s performance among employees in the University of Buea. Also the study intend to provide solutions to the problem of time wasting among staffs in the University of Buea and equally bring out ways that employees can plan their time to improve on their performance.

1. MAIN RESEACRCH QUESTION

What is the effect of time management on employee performance in the University of Buea?

1. SPECIFIC RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1). what is the effect of time planning on employee performance in the University of Buea?

• What is the effect of time control on employee performance in the University of Buea?

3) What is the effect of time management technique on performance of employee in the University of Buea?

1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The objective of this study is divided into two main and specific objectives

MAIN OBJECTIVE

To investigate the effect of time management on employee performance in the university of Buea

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

1)  Evaluating the extent to which time planning affect employee performance in the University of Buea

2) To analyze the effect of time control on employees performance in the University of Buea

3) To identify technique of time management and how it affect employee performance in the University of Buea

1.4 HYPOTHESIS

HO1: Time planning have no significant effect on employees performance in the university of Buea

H1: Time planning have a significant effect on employees performance in the university of Buea

HO2: Time control have no significant effect on employees performance in the university of Buea

H2: Time control have a significant effect on employees performance in the university of Buea

HO3: Time management technique have no significant effects on employee performance in the University of Buea

H3: Time management technique have a significant effect on employee performance in the University of Buea