EFFECT OF TIME MANAGEMENT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF MANAGEMENT STUDENTS

Abstract

Time is an indispensable asset which all the students possess equally but fails to exploit at the same level due to many reasons. This creates a lot of academic stress creating grave consequences on individual’s overall performance and achievements. Many college students face a lot of academic stress due to lack of time management which shows a disturbing trends in their overall health as well. However, it all depends upon individuals’ own efficiency to manage their daily routine on time without taking much of stress. This can include proper planning, time allocation, prioritization, examining usage of time, self-organization of one’s own time with respect to multiple tasks and goal setting. Depending on these facts, emphasis has been paid in the today’s education system to handle issues related to time management by evaluating attitude and behavior of students related to time and its management. In order to understand the effectiveness and efficiency of time management in the academic life of a student and also in their daily routine, a field research is done among 153 postgraduate students of a management institute using a well structured Questionnaire. The findings of the study concluded that both long term time management and short term time management were significant predictors of academic performances.