Identifying the Relationship of Time Management and Creativity of Managers and Employees of theMinistry of Youth and Sports

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The objective of the present study was to identify the relationship of time management with planning tendency and creativity of managers and employees of the ministry of youth and sports. In this descriptive-correlational investigation, 307 employees and managers who worked in the ministry of youth and sports were selected as participants and the Time Management Questionnaire (α=0.89) and Jazni’s Job Creativity Questionnaire (α=0.76) were used as instruments. To classify the results, descriptivestatistics, to test the normality of the data, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and to find the relationships and predict the variables, Pearson correlation and Multiple Regressions were used respectively. According to the results, significant positive relationships were observed between time management and its components and creativity. Regression results showed that 44.7% of creativity total variances were associated with components of time management. Based on the results, there were close relationships between time efficiency and planning and time efficiency and creativity. In addition, planning could be considered as one of the most important factors in the process of time management. Work time and personal affairs planning plays an important role in planning tendency and creativity. Moreover, Daily personal activities scheduling is very important in appropriate use of available time during the day.

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