Time Management Practices among the Staff of Peki College of Education

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue I, January 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

Time Management Practices among the Staff of Peki College of Education

  Samuel Kwasi Kabbah¹, Dickson Cheney-Afenu², Bernice Yawa Tsitsia^1*, Antoinette Sena Attigah^3
1 Department of Mathematics/ICT, Peki College of Education, Ghana.
²Registry Department – Peki College of Education, Ghana.
³ Department of Science, Peki College of Education, Ghana.
^1*Corresponding Author

Abstract – This study examined the staff’s awareness of time management strategies and its practices in Peki College of Education. Descriptive survey design technique was adapted for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample for the study. A total of sixty (60) academic and non-academic staff members formed the sample size. A self-designed survey questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents manually. The overall reliability alpha (α) value of 0.85 was obtained. The results revealed that approximately 55% of the staff are not aware of the existence of effective time management strategies in the College. About 14.8%, 47.8% and 35.6% of the respondents rated time management practices in the College as excellent, satisfactory and unsatisfactory respectively based on the variables tested. About 75% of the respondents’ responses indicated the need for further orientation on time management issues. The study therefore recommends time management policy development for effective time management practices and periodic seminars/sensitization workshops on effective time management practices in the College.

Keywords – time management, staff, Peki College of Education, academic, non-academic

I. INTRODUCTION

Time is an extremely valuable asset and keeps on passing by without returning. Time is one of the most valuable commodities in one’s life. Time spent on our day-to-day activities is a great determinant of our success. No doubt that Macan, Shahani, Dipboye and Phillips (2000) postulated that, the key to achieving success in life is to efficiently handle this resource (time) that everyone equally owns and prepares with adequate focus. Successful and productive work, which is only possible by time management, is the path to success in social life. As indicated by Cyril, “the only thing that man cannot change is time. He cannot halt the time, neither can he slow it down nor can he speed it up, regardless of the position he occupies” (2015, p. 38). Time is irrecoverable, complex and limited. Irrecoverable since every minute wasted is permanently lost, and dynamic (complex and limited) because it’s never static and it continues to move (Ali & Baba, 2015).

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