What Do We Know About Time Management? A Review of the Literature and a Psychometric Critique of Instruments Assessing Time Management

This book is an attempt to illustrate the decision making process in time management for different success stories, which can be used as reference models by the interested audience. This book does not claim that it contains keys for solving the problem of optimal time management. However, this book is an attempt to summarize the current achievements and technologies, which are used for planning and managing activities nowadays, having in mind that all of them are functions of time. The time management is worthy goal of many human activities. It concerns variety problems related to goals definition, assessment of available resources, control of management policies, scheduling of decisions. This book is an attempt to illustrate the decision making process in time management for different success stories, which can be used as reference models by the interested audience. This book contains the following chapters: (1) What Do We Know About Time Management? A Review of the Literature and a Psychometric Critique of Instruments Assessing Time Management (Laurie-Ann M. Hellsten); (2) Hierarchical Optimization for Fast Resource Allocation (Krasimira Stoilova and Todor Stoilov); (3) a Practical Application of Time Management (Darren George); (4) Personal Time-Management and Quality of Life in the Network Society (Merce Boixados Angles, Eulalia Hernandez-Encuentra and Modesta Pousada Fernandez); (5) Distance Learners' Time Management and Learning Effectiveness (Adams O.U. Onuka); and (6) Academic Advising, Time Management and the African American Male Scholar-Athlete (C. Keith Harrison and Brandon Martin) 00 preface_Time Management......Page 1 Part 1 Survey: Time Management......Page 9 01 What Do We Know About Time Management? A Review of the Literature and a Psychometric Critique of Instruments Assessing Time Management......Page 11 Part 2 Formal Models for Time Management......Page 37 02 Hierarchical Optimization for Fast Resource Allocation......Page 39 Part 3 Practical Casses for Time Management......Page 55 03 A Practical Application of Time Management......Page 57 04 Personal Time-Management and Quality of Life in the Network Society......Page 67 Part 4 Time Management in Academic and Sports Cases......Page 83 05 Distance Learners’ Time Management and Learning Effectiveness......Page 85 06 Academic Advising, Time Management and the African American Male Scholar-Athlete......Page 97