Abstract:
Many authors have explained there are several books on prioritization and time
management. However still most of the people are often involving things which are
not in a high priority. Specially, university lecturers who are having some academic
freedom, they should focus on their goals and achieve the academic success. Hence,
this paper attempted to identify the relationship and impact of prioritization and
academic success of state university lecturers. The study was a quantitative study
with 180 state university lecturers belongs to management faculties in four state
universities in Sri Lanka. Regression analysis results revealed that there is a high
correlation and significant impact of prioritization on academic success of state
university lecturers. Hence, it can be concluded that as one of the important time
management practices, prioritization is very critical to identify most important tasks
from the urgent tasks, which may not support to achieve the goals and objectives for
their personal and professional lives. As an implication, it can be further improved
the time management skills of university lecturers. And as a future research
suggestion, this type of study can be conducted with undergraduate students or other
types of higher educational students in order to identify the relationship and impact
of the prioritization on their higher educational academic success.
