The Time Management Disposition Study Of Enterprise Middle-level Governors

Time is impartial to everyone,but it is not the same for human being to employ, value, manage and program time. Individuals and groups have paid great attention to the issue of time management for a long period. Many studies have long been done abroad on the basis of methodology and technology with large numbers of productions. However, less has paid attention to the personality traits of time management. Researchers in China began to take teen-agers as subjects to study personality traits in 2001.This study tried to employ the time management disposition (TMD) of enterprise middle-level governors on basis of personality traits.TMD is a kind of time personality traits, which can be performed by time attitude and time management. It can be represented by individual's cognition, affection and behavior on time.It is useful to understand the essential of time personality that we study time management disposition (TMD) of enterprise middle-level governors.and there were important academic and practical meaning to management psychology ,time psychology and personality psychology researchs.In this study, TMD of enterprise middle-level governors was discussed by means of literature analysis, questionnaire workout, correlation investigation and experiment. First, the research process and related researches of TMD were longitudinally reviewed. Second, TMD of Enterprise Middle-level Governors Questionnaire was made out on the basis of assumption and previous study, meanwhile, the characteristics of TMD of enterprise middle-level governors was also be surveyed. Third, that TMD is a kind of personality traits was further proved by investigating the relationship between personality and TMD of enterprise middle-level governors, and the relationship among TMD, working performance and mental health. Finally, how TMD of enterprise middle-level governors affects working performance was also studied by two imitational experiments and one case study. In the present study, the results showed:1. TMD of enterprise middle-level governors is a multi-dimensions, multi-levies system, included the sense of time value (individual-oriented and social-oriented), the ability of time control (goal-control, plan, priority, feedback and time distribution) and the sense of time efficacy (time management efficacy and time management behavior efficacy).2. The characteristics of TMD of enterprise middle-level governors can be represented as, 1) the level of TMD of enterprise middle-level governors was above medial. 2) There was no significant difference of time value and time efficacy on sex, whereas a significantly difference of time control ability (M＞F). 3) The score of TMD increased with age. 4) There was also significantly different score of TMD on enterprise types.3. TMD and seven-factor of personality was related. There was positive relationship between TMD and extraversion, goodness, ability, human relationship and walk attitude, while negative relationship between TMD and action style and emotionality. Walk attitude, ability, extraversion and emotionality could predict TMD and the ability of time control effectively.4. There was great relation between TMD of enterprise middle-level governors and working performance, mental health. Working performance could be represented by the significant positive relationship between TMD and working performance. There was negative relationship between TMD and the factors of mental health. So TMD could have effective prediction to the number of feminine items.5. the time management disposition (TMD) of enterprise middle-level govemors influence d their work behaviors.Comparing to the subjects who had the lower ability of time control score, subjects with the higher ability of time control score could do better. The results also showed that better ablity of time control subjects could estimate interval more exactly than others, subjects with the higher ablity of time control score could do better in completing In- Basket Test than the lower ability of time control subjects6. TMD of Enterprise Middle-level Governors Questionnaire made by us had high credibility and validity, and it can be identified as efficiency way to evaluate TMD of Chinese enterprise middle-level governors.7. The research validated that TMD is a kind of personality trait from theory and empiric. In a word, It is the first time to study enterprise middle-level governors with TMD as an exploring study, and it is useful for the development of management psychology. Chinese Enterprise Governors Time Management Disposition Scale is the only one to explore Chinese enterprise governors' TMD. The results of this research, for example, the relationship between TMD and working performance and the relationship between TMD and personality factors, can be used in teaching enterprise middle-level governors with bright application foreground. The shortcomings of this study are shown as, small quantity of sample, not enough scene studies and the lack of training study of TMD.