Demographic Profiles and Procrastination of Employees: Relationships and Determinants

Abstract

Procrastination is a plague that affects an individual's working attitude and behavior. In relation, the organization will also suffer and its constituents along the way. This study assessed the demographic profile and the degree of procrastination among selected employees from a higher education institution in Central Luzon, Philippines. The study used a descriptive-correlational design with an adapted questionnaire from McCkloskey ( 2011) as an instrument. A total of 70 individuals took part in the survey wherein the researcher used convenience sampling. The study found that the respondents from the administrative office and faculty were equal in number; they belong to the age bracket of 21-30 years old; dominated by males and are single with 1-5 years in service. Also, based on their response, the respondents often subject themselves to procrastination. In addition, there was also an indirect relationship between procrastination and civil status. Furthermore, regression analysis determined that age and civil status is a significant predictor of procrastination. Based on the aforementioned results, the researcher concluded that certain demographic profiles determine the procrastination of an employee. Lastly, the study provided some pertinent recommendation which will benefit both the employees and the organization.

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“…The research instrument was arranged through a scale that was constructed through indicators of procrastination proposed by research (Mark, Asio, & Riego De Dios, 2021); and research by (Nomura & Richard Ferrari, 2021), as follows. │ 165…”

“…Hidayat (2022) explain that External factors that can have an influence, for example the climate and atmosphere of the work environment, work relations, workload, and regulatory problems or various things that exist in the company that are seen as unpleasant. │ 169 Mark et al (2021), said that in the realm of work, every task activity carried out by employees sometimes encountered obstacles in the form of delays. The existence of obstacles that are seen as impeding have an impact on the achievement of work results that are not in accordance with the standard planned results, and have an impact on causing losses in terms of costs, and working time.…”

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