Time Management Strategies for Productivity in the Automotive Industry

This report explores the crucial role of time management within the automotive industry, a sector experiencing significant growth and economic importance. It defines time management as a planning approach to control time spent on activities to increase efficiency and productivity. The report highlights the advantages of time management, including reduced stress, increased productivity, and fewer errors. It details how the automotive industry uses these techniques to manage business activities, production schedules, and employee workflows. The report also discusses best practices, such as setting goals, dividing time into slots, and utilizing advanced technologies to enhance efficiency. The analysis emphasizes the importance of timely service delivery, the positive impacts of time management on employee focus and stress levels, and the reduction of unnecessary tasks. Overall, the report concludes that effective time management is essential for the automotive industry to control its operations, increase market value, and improve overall business performance by managing time effectively and efficiently.

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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Role of time management in the area of automotive industry.............................................................2
Time management benefits...................................................................................................................4
Less stress..........................................................................................................................................4
Get more done..................................................................................................................................4
Less life friction and problem............................................................................................................4
Create more opportunities................................................................................................................5
Reduce error and un-necessary tasks................................................................................................5
Best practices used in the automobile industry.....................................................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................6
References.............................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The automotive or automobile is a large range of organization and business
industries which includes development, manufacturing, design, selling, and marketing
of motor vehicles. In the last five years the rate of the automobile industry has increased
by 39% and it is one of the biggest economic sectors by revenue (Alam, Gale, Brown, &
Khan, 2010). Recently, they developed the time management approach to control and
manage products related activities in a given time slot. This report aim is to describe the
main concept of time management technique and how the automotive industry uses this
approach to improve their productivity and performance. This report is divided into the
main three parts, for example, the role of time management in the field of the
automobile industry and the benefits of the time management technique.
Role of time management in the area of the automotive industry
Time management is a kind of approach of planning which is used to control the
time spent on particular activities for increasing the efficiency and productivity. The use
of time management in automotive industry is growing rapidly and many automobile
companies are using this approach because of their several advantages such as more
effective, enhance productivity and performance (Castaings, Lhomme, Trigui, &
Bouscayrol, 2016). The automobile industry uses this technique to control and manage
the business activities and production activities in a given time. It is observed that many
business industries are facing the issue of time management because they are not able
to manage their activities or programmes in a scheduled time. To avoid such kind of
issue and improve the performance of business automobile industry adopted time
management techniques that have the ability to divide any business activity or plan
according to their value and provide a specific time by which management team can
easily handle the more complex situation in very less time. A recent study observed that
an effective time management approach can enable automobile work smarter and it
provide a platform to companies for increasing their productivity and output (Douvere,
2008).
Automobile industry involves this process for controlling and maintaining their
work sections and they also handle the production and implementation related

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activities in assigned time. For example, if management team of an automotive industry
want to design and implement a high-level technology in their products and they decide
to complete it in schedule time then they can adopt this step to reduce their efforts and
convert work or activity in time slots. With the help of this approach, the automobile
industry are able to develop and implement a business activity in a more effective
manner. It is identified that automotive industries are handling their deadlines and
employees work effectively without taking ant stress which increases the overall
productivity of their business (Forbus, Newbold, & Mehta, 2011). To manage time in
field work automotive industry set their goal and divides time into different slots by
which the management team can easily manage time and they can improve their overall
performance. They also use this approach for creating a time schedule for every
employee by which they can reduce the issue of availability in the organization because
automobile industry works 24 hours for which they required a technique which manage
their time. Recently this industry developed a time management approach to avoid the
issue of repetition and designed various business strategies to improve the
performance of their products and services.
Schedule employees work is one of the initial steps of time management
approach and automobile industry scheduled their works and adopts the advanced
technologies that help to manage their time and works. It also provides a clear picture
of every task and the time consumption by which management teams can plan your
other engagements. With the help of this technique, the industry can start their business
activities with the highest priority to the lower by which they can complete a given task
in the estimated time. Therefore, by using the process of time management the
automobile industry is able to control and manage their works and other services and
they also increased their value in the market by managing time. It is evaluated that the
time management technique has potential to avoid the unnecessary tasks and
automobile industry deals with numbers of tasks and activities for which they required
the time management process to reduce the unwanted task from their business plan.
Time management approach plays a significant role in an organization and it has
the ability to control and manage the overall performance of the business. In the last
two years the rate of time management has increased by 47% due to which companies
can improve their business and they can easily manage their time. For any business

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industry, the timely delivery of the service is very important when it is projects have so
much of stakes running on them. It is observed that the proper time management in the
organization has many positive impacts, for example, producing staff more focused,
reducing stress from employees, encouraging productivity and performance.
With the help of this process, the management team can design and develop
more effective strategies and goals to improve the overall performance of the business.
It is observed that an effective time management approach can control the availability
of the employees and empirical records can describe the overall picture in minute
detail. There are many other positive impacts of this process, for example, availability of
personnel, surety of completion of tasks or activities and proper management of
projects. With the help of this technique, the project manager can track the working
status of the employees as well as they can record their data from anywhere and
anytime. Apart from the proper workflow process, time management technique also
increases the communication process in an organization and it is very important to
focus on the communication system that improves productivity and efficiency.
Time management benefits
There are many advantages of the time management technique for an
organization which are described below:
Less stress
With the help of this process, the management team can reduce the overall stress
from employees and a recent study indicates that managing employee’s time can
decrease the rate of stress level (Il-Hyun, Kim, & Yoon, 2015).
Get more done
It is observed that the main goal of time management is to increase the
productivity of an organization and it has the potential to complete many tasks or
activities in very less time.
Less life friction and problem
Many employees missed their deadline which creates the uncertainty of work
but time management has the ability to control and manage the deadline which
increases the overall life friction

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Create more opportunities
Time and work produce more opportunities in an organization and companies
can easily understand the value of time in the workplace.
Reduce error and un-necessary tasks
With the help of this approach, companies can reduce the error and issues occur
during production and development stages (MacCann, Fogarty, & Roberts, 2012). It also
identifies the unnecessary task that creates the uncertainty during the implementation
process.
There are many other benefits of this technique in the area of automobile industry
which are the following:
 Manage tasks on a given deadline
 Automobile industry can improve their business by managing their time
 Increase productivity and performance of products
 Reduce human efforts
 Provide a platform to achieve the goals and objectives of the business
 Also increase the efficiency of the system (Stevenson, Hojati, & Cao, 2007).
Best practices used in the automobile industry
In this modern era, the use of information technology and automobiles are
growing very fast which creates the complexity for managing each task on the given
deadline. To solve such problem this industry can adopt time management technique
and they should develop and implement the strategies or plans to manage their times
(Wu, 2008). If they control and manage their every task on a scheduled deadline then
they can enhance the efficiency of their business and they can also enhance the overall
productivity of the business (Van der Meer, Jansen, & Torenbeek, 2010). There are
many other industries which can adopt such kind of approach to use time in a more
effective manner, for example, hospitals, higher education, hotels and many more. With
the help of this technique, this industry can increase overall motivation and
performance of the staff and they can reduce the level of the stress by dividing work
according to their value that will give the best output to the company (Verhoef, Lemon,
Parasuraman, Roggeveen, Tsiros, & Schlesinger, 2009).

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Conclusion
Time management is defined as a technique which is used to categorise time
between different kinds of tasks or activities. Most companies and business industries
are using this step to manage their times and it has the capability to improve the
performance of their business. This report evaluated the importance of time
management process in the automotive industry and their impacts on the productivity
of the business. The management team should ensure that they divide time according to
the priority level which can help to increase the performance and efficiency of their
products and services.

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