IMPORTANCE OF SELF-MANAGEMENT AND FUTURE RESEARCH THOUGHTS: A CRITICAL REVIEW PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Self-management has very broad meaning and its gives many benefits to the human beings. However, majority of the people has not identified the importance of self-management. They always try to manage others. The most important part is first we should manage our self then we should try to manage others. The main purpose of this study is to emphasis the importance of self-management and several future research suggestions have been identified. These future research suggestions may help to find research problems for researchers in this area. Based on the analysis of the existing literature the researcher of this study has introduced a model for self-management. According to that model, self-management consists with many very important components called: self-care management, self-mastering, selfquality management, self-career management, self-finance management, self-development, self-marketing management, self-disciplinary management, and self- performance management. In addition to that, the researcher has introduced a conceptual framework in order to test empirically to establish the relationship between self-management and Self-performance, and to identify the mediating role of self-competency on that relationship. More over the researcher of the study has directed some future research suggestions, specially in the area of strategic self-management.