The management and utilization of time by four first year principals was studied over an eleven month period of their first year on the job. A naturalistic research design was utilized to provide an extensive description of the experiences of the first year principals; the specific type of methodology chosen was a phenomenological research design. Three methods were used to collect data to provide for triangulation, as suggested by Jick (1979); direct observation, interviews, and review of documents. / The results provided an extensive description of the phenomena that were observed by the researcher and of the phenomena that were perceived by the principals to have had an effect on their time utilization and management. The data suggested that the principals' management and utilization of time was strongly influenced by several intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The intrinsic factors included the principals' lack of experience, their lack of specialized knowledge about the organization, and their personalities. The extrinsic factors included the nature of managerial work and the principalship and the demands and constraints of their environments. Both types of factors had adverse effects upon the principals' abilities to manage and utilize their time throughout the year; it appeared, however, that intrinsic factors had had more of an adverse effect. At the beginning of the year, a lack of specialized knowledge about their organizations appeared to be the most significant intrinsic factor, but, as the year progressed, the principals' personalities appeared to most strongly influence their ability to establish some control over the large number of extrinsic factors and to manage their time effectively. Other findings included: (1) Many time management techniques would be very difficult for first year principals to utilize. The effective use of many techniques required that the principals possess specialized knowledge about the organization, which was learned on the job over a period of time, rather than on possessing generic managerial competencies and skills. (2) Principals had the time and the flexibility in their schedules to emphasize selected roles. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-04, Section: A, page: 0864. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75523 |
| Contributors | PATTERSON, JEFF L., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 421 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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