INTRODUCTION


 * TITLE:** TIME MANAGEMENT AND ITS INFLUENCE ON PROJECT SUCCESS


 * CHAPTER ONE**
 * 1.0** **INTRODUCTION**

This chapter consists with background of the study, research problem, research question, research objective and significant of the study. From this chapter, it will conduct the researcher doing their research. This research is about time management and its influence on project success.
 * 1.1 INTRODUCTION**


 * 1.2 BACKGROUND OF STUDY**

Researchers has define Time Management in difference ways through their research, as a means for monitoring and controlling time, as setting goals in life and keeping track of time use, as prioritizing goals and generating tasks from the goals, and as the perception of a more structured and purposive life (e.g., Bond & Feather, 1988; Britton & Tesser, 1991; Burt & Kemp, 1994; Eilam & Aharon, 2003). Claessens et al. (2007) defined time management as ‘‘behaviors that aim at achieving an effective use of time while performing certain goal-directed activities” (p. 36). The various definitions all converge on the same essential element, through mechanisms such as planning, organizing, prioritizing, or multitasking in manage time efficiency to avoid project failure.

Time is one of triple constraint, in order to success the project, project managers must ensure the time, scope and budget in their project. Time is like a schedule of the project, if the project delay it may cause a lot of budget and it also run from scope if project over budget and not end in time like customer orders. This scenario means project failure is cause of lack in time management. Inefficient time management also effect project schedule when project managers not manage their time effectively. Therefore, the aim of this study is to know project managers time management method that they use in achieving project success.
 * 1.3** **PROBLEM STATEMENT**

The research attempts to find out time management of Project Managers or an expert in project management, the reasons why they unable to manage their time properly and the drastic methods how to manage time effectively.
 * 1.4 RESEARCH OBJECTIVE**

1.4.1 To find out project manager time management

1.4.2 To find the reasons why they unable to manage their time properly

1.4.3 To find the drastic methods how to manage time effectively.

1.5.1 What is the influence of efficient time management in project success? 1.5.2 What are the methods that project managers use to manage their time?
 * 1.5 RESEARCH QUESTION**

Time management is a set of principles, practices, skills, tools, and systems that work together to help you get more value out of your time with the aim of improving the quality of your life. Manage the time is involving a particular activities, and these include planning, allocating, setting goals, delegation, analysis of time spent, monitoring, organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing. Some of the recent general arguments related to "time" and "management" point out that the term "time management" is misleading and that the concept should actually imply that it is "the management of our own activities, to make sure that they are accomplished within the available or allocated time, which is an unmanageable continuous resource”. In arriving at a definition of time management, it is important to note that time management is a broad subject that covers many different areas from your day-to-day actions to your long-term goals. Some of the skills associated with time management include planning, prioritizing, goal setting, scheduling, and managing your workload. A good time management system integrates all these different skills using a consistent set of tools designed to work well with each other.
 * 1.6 DEFINITION OF TERM**

The participants for this research are thirty project managers or an expert in project management. An expert in project management is like a project coordinator, project leader or project team members. They are chosen from professional organizations. It’s an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Seeking to further a particular profession, the interests of individuals engaged in that profession, and the public interest that’s mean central to policy debates, politics, democracy and the nature of government itself. Their working field is specifically in management, either in construction, department of management or event.
 * 1.7 SCOPE OF STUDY**

This study is to determine the most efficient time management method that the participants used in their projects. Its study’s how efficient time management affects a project manager which is how far they were affected.
 * 1.8 SIGNIFICANT OF STUDY**