Factors Affecting Secondary School Principals’ Time Management Practices in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Abstract

This study sought to investigate whether principal’s age, gender,
administrative experience, training in time management area, school’s
nature, level, location and complexity has any effect on the time
management practices. Six time management practices used by
secondary school principals i.e. scheduling contacts, managing meetings,
delegating tasks, setting priorities, managing paperwork, handling
interruptions were incorporated in a questionnaire. A questionnaire was
designed, validated and administered to respondents for collecting data
having Cronbach Alpha value of 0.864. Data were collected from 344
secondary school principals selected through stratified random sample
from seven divisional headquarter districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Results show that principal’s administrative experience and school’s
level have significant effect on principals’ time management practices.
Whereas principal’s age, gender, training in time management area,
school’s nature, location and complexity have no significant effect on
principals’ time management practices. It was recommended that
introductory courses, refresher courses, workshops, and seminars on time
management practices should be included in in-service training program
for principals to equip them with skills, knowledge and attitude on
adequate time management practices regardless of their personal
characteristics and school’s level, location, nature and complexity.