LSC: Time Management Strategies and Workplace Equality Review

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STUDY SKILLS FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION (LSC)

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................5
Evaluate the suggestions made in the article on time management.............................................5
Which do you agree with and which do you disagree with? Justify your position......................7
Are there any other suggestions you would like to make?..........................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
Reference.......................................................................................................................................10
Introduction....................................................................................................................................12
Main Body.....................................................................................................................................13
What is a literature review and what is its purpose?..................................................................13
Write a literature review on the topic "Equality in the workplace"...........................................15
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................19
Reference.......................................................................................................................................20

Assessment 1

Introduction
Time management can be simply defined as effectively managing the time so that the right time
is allocated to the right work. The present report is designed for highlighting the importance of
time management in the life of an individual. It is very important to manage the time since all the
work get finished only by properly doing the same. When time is not managed properly then, all
the activities will become complicated, and it will not be easy to finish them before the deadline.

Main Body
Evaluate the suggestions made in the article on time management.
Time management plays an eminent role in not only in an enterprise but also in the common or
personal life of all persons. Thus, everyone should do management of time if they want to attain
success in their lives. Time management includes the following elements:
Effective planning: This includes planning of the work in advance in the starting of the day. The
activities should be selected by its priority (Sasson, 2019).
Setting goals and objectives: This is important to set some specific aims and target before
starting the time management of any activity. Without the actual goal and objective, the outcome
cannot be tested or determined. Thus, for knowing or evaluating the result, it is eminent to frame
particular aims and objectives.
The delegation of responsibilities: According to this element, an employee should not do all the
work on its own. He or she needs to delegate the work to other employees and focus on some
other task that is more important in comparison to that. But this is to be noted that the roles and
responsibilities should be given as per the need and expertise of a person so that the work can be
finished before the deadline.
Setting deadlines: An individual should set the deadline of the work by its own and try to follow
the same. The work should be submitted before asking the senior to make them happy and
satisfied (Ho, 2018).
Prioritising activities according to their significance: This is very important to prioritise the
tasks according to its urgency and significance. Thus, it should be determined that which task
should be completed in a single day and which should be finished within a month or year. The
task that is having the highest priority should be completed earlier.
Spending the right time on the correct activity: It is to be noted that the right time should be
spent on completing correct work so that no other important activity remains uncompleted.

Beside this, for doing proper time management, it is essential to be organised, focussed and do
not misuse the time. If everything remains organised, then time will not get consumed in
searching for any file. After that concentration is important since if any work is being carried on
with full concentration, then no issues would arise and the work gets accomplished properly. An
individual should put a timer to finish the task as soon as possible.

Which do you agree with and which do you disagree with? Justify your position.
By the study, it can be said that for managing the time, the effective planning, setting deadlines,
prioritising activities as per their importance, being focussed and organised is the correct tool.
These tools will help in doing proper time management. For example, by doing effective
planning, one can plan what should be completed in a day and after that soon. On another side,
by setting the deadlines, it becomes easy to understand which activity should be finished in a
specific time (Griffin, 2013). Beside this, it is also important to prioritise the activities since this
gives the idea of which activity should be finished earlier about others. It is also necessary to be
focussed and organised since if everything is put in an organised manner, the concentration will
not break, and the work will be finished easily without any difficulty. On another side, there are
some other tools like delegating work, spend right time on the right activity, setting goals and
objectives, misusing time, etc. are not so much important since time management can also be
done without following these instructions (Rapp, Bachrach and Rapp, 2013). For example, the
delegation of work should not be done as this can go on the wrong hand and due to that whole
work get negatively impacted. Besides this, the right time will be spending on correct activity
also by prioritising the work.

Are there any other suggestions you would like to make?
Some other suggestions can make time management easier. This can be understood by
examining the next points. Work should be done within a team to complete that before the
deadline. The result of the task will also not get affected since more than one people are getting
engaged in doing similar work (Amin and Karim, 2013). Team working will also give creative
and impressive outcome as innovative ideas can be given by any team member who can make
the whole work very simple. On another side, training should be given to the employees who
have newly joined the workplace so that they can understand how to finish the work before the
deadline. At the same time, the entire team member should be motivated regarding
accomplishing the work by giving those rewards and other benefits.

Conclusion
By going through the report, it can be summarised that time management is essential in
everyone’s life. Without this, no one can achieve success in their life and their official as well
personal life would become complicated. For doing time management ineffective manner, it is
necessary to be focused, organised and active. Apart from this, the ways of accomplishing the
work before the deadline have also been described properly like setting the deadlines, targets,
and objectives, prioritising the activities by its importance, delegating the work to other person
and so on.

Reference
 Amin, M.A., and Karim, M.A., 2013. A time-based quantitative approach for selecting
lean strategies for manufacturing organisations. International Journal of Production
Research, 51(4), pp.1146-1167.
 Griffin, R.W., 2013. Fundamentals of management. Cengage Learning.
 Ho, L., 2018. The Importance of Time Management: 8 Ways It Skyrockets Your Success.
Lifehack. Available at:< https://www.lifehack.org/692542/the-importance-of-time-
management> [Accessed on 23rd February 2019].
 Rapp, A.A., Bachrach, D.G. and Rapp, T.L., 2013. The influence of time management
skill on the curvilinear relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and task
performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98(4), p.668.
 Sasson, R., 2019. Importance of time management. Success Consciousness. Available
at:< https://www.successconsciousness.com/blog/time-management/importance-of-time-
management/> [Accessed on 23rd February 2019].

Assessment 2

Introduction
A literature review can be defined as a comprehensive summary of research on a particular topic.
This can also be referred to as a scholarly paper which comprises of current knowledge along
with substantive finding, and theoretical & methodological contributions to a specific topic. The
current report is highlighting the importance of the literature review and its purpose. In addition
to this, a literature review on the topic "Equality in the workplace" will also be discussed in this
project so that learners can understand the similarities in an effective manner.