A Chronometric Profile: A Project Manager Manages His Time.

Abstract

As managers are presented with an increasing multitude of decisions that are growing more complex and time consuming, they are faced with the absolute inelasticity of time. Although they are forced to expend time at a fixed rate of sixty seconds per minute, they can determine the way they spend it. This study is a vignette addressing a two-week period in the life of a DOD project manager. The paper provides a quantitative perspective of time allocation and utilization as well as the scope and nature of the demands placed on a project manager's time. the study intends to prompt introspective thought concerning not only the tasks and techniques of management, but also the essentiality of intelligent allocation of time in the management process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA039691

Entities

People

  • Joseph Samuel Laposata

Organizations

  • Defense Systems Management College

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Counter IED

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  • Addressing
  • Defense Systems
  • Engineering
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Management Personnel
  • Management Planning And Control
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Organizational Structure
  • Project Management
  • Security
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Management
  • Systems Science

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