CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

• BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Organization comprises of individuals performing various activities which enable them to achieve objectives for which they are established.

Cole (2002) says that these various tasks varies in  time span that is  the time required to perform a specific task in organization varies from job to job hence the need for effective management of time by the  organization is discharged of various organizational responsibilities.

It is against this backdrop that Tailor (1977) developed “the time and motion study” time and motion study which reveals exactly how long it takes to perform a task and the best way to perform it.

This enables organization to know how much output they can expect in a given time in support to this principles. Taylor (1977) demonstrates the benefit of increase employees productivity and earnings which he had obtained at the Bethlehem steel works.

He described to his critics an experiment with two shoulders “first class shoulders” in his word whose  effort were timed and studies  each man had his own personal shovel which he used regardless of the type of coal being shifted.

At first the average shovel load was about 38 pounds and with this loan each man handled about 25 tons of materials a day. Daily tonnage up to 30 eventually it was found out that with smaller shovels averaging about 21 pounds per load the daily output rose even higher.

George and James (1996) says that management is prioritizing and estimating techniques that allow workers to identify the most importance task and fit them with their daily work  schedule.

This enable workers to make better use of their time  whenever we went to perform some  task. We are not presently doing this, so we have to displace other activities to make room for it. There it lies the secret of what it referred to as effective time managements to be effective we displace less importance task with more important ones that have stress. If we tend to be objective about time. We will discover that for every reward that we receive either in a given labour it is not for the effort of the job rendered but for the time involved or time taken to do such a job.

Cordiner (1990) says that effective impact of time management is everything in every viable organization. There exist variety of techniques that organization can employ to ensure effective and efficient impact management of time by employees to enhance  its productivity.

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