Os efeitos das crenças e da percepção da gestão do tempo na motivação e no desempenho no trabalho

Abstract

The justification for this study is based on the fact that scholars are concerned with studying the effects of leadership, effort, rewards, meaning of work, among other subjects. However, it is verified that the perception of time management, as well as the beliefs in the sense of what individuals believe and are willing to engage in the professional scope can be articulated in relation to motivation and performance, having in this focus a space to be researched. So the question is: what are the effects of beliefs and the perception of time management on motivation and performance for work? Therefore, the overall objective of this study is to verify the relationship of constructs beliefs and perception of time management in motivation and performance. The research methodology was quantitative, descriptive, applied, field and bibliographical. Data were collected using a structured Likert questionnaire, created for the research, applied to 395 professionals who were working on the occasion of the research, in the city of Juiz de Fora. Among the results presented, beliefs and perception of time management were able to explain 14.10% of the variability of motivation. Thus, it is worth investigating the aggregation of these two constructs to other variables, in order to obtain a model that contributes more accurately to the understanding of a motivated behavior. However, it has also been observed with statistical treatment that the higher the beliefs, the greater the motivation and the greater the perception of time management, the greater the motivation. These assertions indicate that organizations should better attend to the beliefs that the employee brings, since the motivation of these professionals can be worked out from the knowledge of which beliefs they are acting, for example, in a project of organizational change, in which the Motivation for better performance. Regarding performance, the finding that the higher the beliefs, the higher the performance and the higher the perception of time management, the higher the performance brings recommendations in the sense that it becomes necessary to invest in the training in time management to To improve human performance, both in context and task. In this line of understanding, it was also verified that beliefs, time management perception and motivation were able to explain 36.90% of the variability of performance, which becomes an interesting theoretical contribution, considering the subjectivity of the constructs studied. The purpose of this research was achieved through statistical confirmation of the positive influence of constructs beliefs and perception of time management in motivation and performance in work.