ACCA Applied Knowledge · Business and Technology · Personal effectiveness
A finance manager receives several tasks from different directors, all marked urgent. She lists them and ranks them by both importance and deadline, doing first those that are important and due soonest. Which time management technique is she applying?
She is applying prioritisation. By ranking tasks according to importance and deadline and completing the important, imminent ones first, she manages her workload effectively. Delegation would involve passing work to others, and multitasking means working on several things simultaneously, neither of which is described.
- APrioritisationCorrect
- BDelegation
- CMultitasking
Explanation
Ranking tasks by importance and urgency is prioritisation. Delegation would involve passing tasks to others, which she has not done. Multitasking means doing several tasks at once, not ordering them.
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