ABSTRACT
Time management and procrastination would appear to be logically related, in the sense that time management may be a way to overcome procrastination. The research in the two areas, however, has been relatively separate. Perhaps because some procrastination researchers, such as Ferrari (2010), find that “Time management skills do not help chronic procrastinators. Time management is nothing more than a Band-Aid.” (p.6). In this chapter, I aim to answer the question to what extent planning, the core of time management, helps to overcome procrastination. The recent developments in both research fields will be reviewed, first time management and then procrastination. Most studies on both topics have been conducted among students, and only a handful of studies have combined the topics. I will then discuss which interventions have been shown to reduce procrastination, whether these have been subsumed under the term time management or not. Throughout the chapter, I will focus on studies that are work related.
