ABSTRACT
Modern society places a variety of temporal demands on people’s activities. Organizations require workers to be present and ready to work at particular times, to execute their work in synchrony with others, to keep a certain pace or rhythm, and to complete their work within certain deadlines. Thus, in order to perform well, people at work must ‘deal’ with time in an effective manner. In personal settings there are time demands as well, and people have to take these into account when scheduling household and family duties, social encounters and leisure activities. Many people live busy lives and struggle between job and family obligations (Koch & Kleinmann 2002; Major, Klein & Ehrhart 2002). The fact that more and more people must balance their careers and home situation (Cooper 2005; Jones, Burke & Westman 2006) may explain why time management is such an important issue in popular discourse, and why it keeps demanding attention from management and scholars.
