¹Cherouk Amr Yassin ,²Nour Gamal Abdelmaguid

¹Head of Quality Assurance Unit, College of Management and Technology, Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport, Smart Village Campus

²College of Engineering Management, Master of Engineering Management, Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport, Smart Village Campus

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i11-44

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ABSTRACT

Time is a vital resource available to all human beings. The current research, therefore, aims to clarifies the relationship between time management and the quality of production, the disclosure of how the engineer organizes his/her time, and the extent to which cultural and societal factors influence the use of time. This study aims to explore the effects of working place on employee productivity with a quantitative approach, the data was collected using a survey method. The survey was adopted from previous literature and data was analysed using SPSS. The study sample included several engineers from different fields in different companies. The research has produced several findings, including the importance of time planning, which is an essential factor contributing to increasing production rates, and the different perspectives of engineers to define and understand the term time management, which leads to the finding that the time factor is a significant factor for all engineers to get successful results at the end of the day. Finally, the analyses and the final results were discussed to clarify the importance of the time management element and its relationship to the workplace and to reach conclusions and nominations.

KEYWORDS:

Efficiency, Performance, Planning, Time management, Work Productivity, Working from Home, Working from Office.

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