A COMPARISON ON THE TIME MANAGEMENT UNDERSTANDINGS OF UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC STAFF

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate time management understandings of university academic staff with their participation or not participation in the sports activities, gender and their work year. The sample of the study consisted of 93 university academic staff who Works at Dumlupinar University (37 women and 56 men). As data collection tool in addition to a questionary, which consists 10 items developed by the researchers, "Time Management Scale", which was developed by Britton and Tesser (1991) and Turkish adaptation was done by Koçak and Alay (2002) was used. The obtained data were analyzed by using SPSS for windows. In addition to descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis test were done in order to determine significant differences between time management understandings of the academic staff. As a result, although, there was no significant difference between participants' time management understanding according to gender (p>.05) there were significant differences between participants' time management understandings in the "time attitudes" subscale according to their work year and in "time management" and "time attitudes" subscales according to participation /or not participation in sport activities (p<.05).