Worker's perceptions of time, time-use-attitudes and productivity

• Published in: SA Journal of Industrial Psychology Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 24 - 27
• Main Authors: E. Ben-Baruch, C. P. H. Myburgh, E. C. Anderssen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: AOSIS 19-06-1991
• Subjects: Worker's perceptions of productivity; Worker's perceptions of time; Worker's perceptions of time-use-attitudes
• ISSN: 0258-5200; 2071-0763
• DOI: 10.4102/sajip.v17i3.531

Decreasing productivity and increasing wage demands are singled out as being crucial problems facing the economy of South Africa. Changes in the time perceptions and time-use-attitudes of workers could play a decisive role in increasing productivity. The relationships between time perception, needs, motivation and productivity are analysed. Culture, tradition, economy, and environment lend a specific significance to these variables. Workers in a technological society should be guided to adapt to and live by the value system needed to uphold productivity. Opsomming Voortdurende afnemende produktiwiteit teenoor looneise wat styg, is een van die kritieke probleme waarmee die Suid-Afrikaanse ekonomie gekonfronteer word. Die verandering van werkers se tydpersepsie en verandering van houdinge teenoor die benutting van tyd kan deurslaggewend in die verhoging van produktiwiteit wees. In die lig hiervan is die verwantskap tussen tydpersepsie, behoeftes, motivering en prodrktiwiteit ondersoek. In die ontleding word aandag geskenk aan die invloed wat kultuur, tradisie, ekonomie en die omgewing op hierdie veranderlikes het. Opieiding in 'n tegnologiese samelewmg behoort daarop gerig te wees om 'n waardesisteem by werkers te laat ontwikkel wat produktiwiteit kan bevorder.