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How to Help a Jamaican Come on Time - Time-Based Productivity via Psychology and Engineering
The document discusses the challenges of time-based productivity, highlighting a lack of interdisciplinary research in psychology, sociology, and engineering. It identifies the declining productivity in various regions, emphasizing the importance of understanding time demands as discrete psychological objects that individuals can manage. Recommendations for improving punctuality include understanding personal profiles and managing time effectively through defined actions and habits.
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- 1. Audio Link: http://goo.gl/wxFnaa Howto Help a Jamaican Come on Time Time-Based Productivity via Psychology and Engineering Francis Wade
- 2. Context – LowProductivity
- 3. Every functioning adultuses time management techniques – a system of habits, practices and rituals
- 4. The Cracks Time-based productivitylives in the cracks between academic departments • Psychology? Sociology? Management? Engineering? • Little research, no conferences, no journals, no departments, no funding, no follow-up work
- 5. Dr. Laurie-Ann Hellsten 2012Literature Review “Currently no universally accepted definition of time management” “No agreement regarding the skills and behaviors that constitute time management”
- 6. “Between 1972 and2007 the country’s labour productivity has been declining at an average annual rate of 1.5 per cent. ”
- 7. In Ecuador… Participacíon Ciudadana,the civic group behind the (punctuality) campaign, reckons that $724m (or 4.3% of GDP) each year. lateness costs Ecuador
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- 12. You Time can’t bemanaged Seen Jamaicans become more productive after they migrate Is this psychology? Are very busy…
- 13. 3 steps • Understand“the atom” – A Time Demand • How to View / Understand it • How it’s Handled – research results
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- 17. Memory Has ItsLimits
- 18. Each Factory Hasa “Widget”
- 19. What about timebasedproductivity?
- 20. The Widget: A TimeDemand An individual commitment to complete an action in the future.
- 21. A time demand_______ …Is a discrete psychological object. …Includes the action to be taken. …Has a duration plus an estimated start / end time (i.e. metadata). …Has some pseudo-physical properties. …Doesn’t bother us when it’s well managed. …Disappears once its completed.
- 22. The “Simple” Model ATime Demand Moves Around
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- 24. The Advanced Model A TimeDemand Can’t Move! It’s a Mental Object
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- 26. Data gathered: 74Profiles NewHabits-NewGoals 26
- 27. Total Count perBelt 300 249 250 200 150 122 Total Count 113 100 50 23 0 White Yellow Orange Green
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- 29. How to Helpa Jamaican Come on Time? Hypothesis: Once you know your current profile, it’s easier to make changes
- 30. Add your name/emailMyGame Links To Receive Minnie Mouse minnie@disney.com John Smith-Ramlogan john@tstt.net Free Downloads 30
Editor's Notes
- #2 Time-Based Productivity is a challenge for Jamaicans. The symptoms of imbalanced lives, lateness, forgotten commitments and time-stress surround us daily, affecting our macro-economy and our micro-experience. In this session we’ll look at the latest research in the field and how it can be bent, shaped and shifted to give us concrete answers in our context, using empirical data gathered in 6 years of local training programs.
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- #31 Lights! Camera! Action!