Time management

Under Time Management [ - ' mænɪdʒmənt ] understands several methods that will help you work through upcoming appointments and tasks within the available time period.

A distinction is made between personal time management and time management.

Personal time management

In personal time management individuals or groups should be helped with goal-oriented work and planning techniques to improve the use of time. Time elapses unchangeable in our environment and therefore is the only resource that repealed, nor - if wasted - can be recovered. In this sense, time management is a good work habit and a method of self-management.

Strategies of personal time management

Among the common strategies to work through the tasks by importance and urgency to split large tasks into small sub-tasks and leave tasks to other ( Delegate ) belongs. It is generally a good idea to make a daily schedule that includes all tasks and time for additional, spontaneous odd jobs.

The check off completed tasks is a follow-up and an important means of motivation in time management.

These procedures are combined with the task management and, if possible, perfected.

Known techniques of time management can also be found under self-management: Known methods.

Criticism of the personal time management

The magazine Bild der Wissenschaft criticized 2006 Time management offerings with a view of brain physiology and stress research. She quoted from a book by Stefan Klein et al the sentence " We are not stressed because we do not have time, but we do not have time because we are stressed. "

This phrase refers to another statement in the book, which stress hormones restrict that part of the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for the perception of time, in its function.

The economic educator Karl Heinz Geissler of the Bundeswehr University in Munich, explains: "Time management is a trade hopes ". It is unrealistic that a time management expert or a counselor means of simple recipes solve those troublesome problems that are responsible for stress, stress and time pressure.

Rainer B. Jogschies particularly critical of the too often hidden into account the supposed economic productivity. Time could be gained only at the expense of others, for example by products would be offered "cheap" in the Western countries, which are produced at the expense of time in poor countries. In addition, noted " time management preacher " rarely the environmental consequences: " It was only prices that the time dimension, so miteinbezögen the finiteness of resources and products, realistic prices would be a market that above the level of shepherds, hunters and gatherers want to lie. "

Time Management

Under Time Management refers to measures and methods for the detection, treatment and utilization of work-related time data. It forms the basis for many forms of performance pay and had a corresponding meaning through the ages. Currently, an extension is done in terms of a "time- based management " in Industrial Engineering and is no longer refers solely to manufacturing and assembly, but covers all work processes. In addition, increasingly, measures for the collection, documentation and verification of attendance or hours of work are recorded in personnel within the working time management with the concept.

Thus, the original typical time - quantity data are supplemented by flow, stress, ergonomics, process, quality, and cost data. In the context of demographic change, these data substantially increases in the planning of labor input in importance.

A time management based on time studies that are ideally broken down into time blocks so that from which target times can be assembled for the planning of work processes and the calculation of orders.