The effect of time-management training on employee attitudes and behavior: a field experiment. 1994

C Orpen
Dorset Business School, Bournemouth University, England.

This field experiment tested for the effect of time-management training on 56 employees at an Australian manufacturing company, half of whom attended a 3-day training program and half of whom did not. The training group subjects rated their management of time significantly higher after the program than did the group who did not attend the training program. The diary entries of the trained subjects over a 2-week period after the training program were also rated by three superiors as exhibiting significantly better time management than the diary entries of the untrained group. Given that subjects had been randomly assigned to the two conditions, these results suggest that appropriate training can cause employees to improve how they manage their time at work.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009817 Office Management Planning, organizing, and administering activities in an office. Management, Office
D004651 Employment The state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary. Employment Termination,Employment Status,Labor Force,Occupational Status,Status, Occupational,Underemployment,Labor Forces,Status, Employment,Termination, Employment
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001290 Attitude An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be. Sentiment,Attitudes,Opinions,Opinion,Sentiments
D001519 Behavior The observable response of a man or animal to a situation. Acceptance Process,Acceptance Processes,Behaviors,Process, Acceptance,Processes, Acceptance
D012681 Sensitivity Training Groups A group of people who meet in an unstructured setting to learn about themselves, interpersonal relationships, and group processes and about larger social systems. Encounter Groups,T-Groups,Encounter Group,Group, Encounter,Group, Sensitivity Training,Groups, Encounter,Groups, Sensitivity Training,Sensitivity Training Group,T Groups,T-Group,Training Group, Sensitivity,Training Groups, Sensitivity
D017748 Time Management Planning and control of time to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Management, Time,Managements, Time,Time Managements

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