Time is very important in educational institutions. It is also one of our contemporary problem ‚as time is a clear – cut and limited factor‚ it demands that administrators should monitor it by administering and monitoring the principles of time.

Hence‚ the researcher attempts to identify the skills of administrating time and the reasons that cause the waste of time of the Heads of Departments at university of Baghdad.

Significance  of the research:

Time is very important to all educational administrators and one of them is the institutions of Higher education. One of these is the Head of the Department. S/He has to exploit time so as to run the department properly.

Aims of the research:

• To identify the skills of administering time of the Heads of the Department in the collegesat university of Baghdad from the staffers’ points of view.
• To identify causes of wasting the heads of department time.
• There are statistical relationships between the skills of administering time and causes of wasting time according to (sex‚specialty‚ and years of work).

 Limits of the research:

• All the staffers of the department in all colleges (scientific and humanity) at university of Baghdad.
• All the colleges at university of Baghdad.
• The academic year 2013 – 2014 .
• Skills of administering time and causes of wasting time of the Heads of Department at university of Baghdad.

Procedure of the research:

The researcher used descriptive and analytical procedure. To achieve the aims of the present study‚ two questionnaires were designed. The firstquestionnaire consists of (63) items related to skills divided into five fields (planning‚ organization‚ orientation‚ organizational communicationand evaluation. The second one comprises (29) items that are related to causes of wasting time distributed in to two fields (external wasting and internal wasting).  The questionnaires were exposed to a jury of experts to check the validity of the questionnaires. Reliability is checked by using Cronbach Formula.Then the questionnaires were applied on (427) staffers‚ i.e. ‚ (11.99%) from the original population whichis(3559) from (12) colleges which are (Women’s college of Education‚Ibn Rushed college of Education‚ Mass Media‚Administration‚ Economy‚ ArtsandLanguage)

As for scientific college‚ they are ( Ibn Al- Haitham‚ Women’s college of Science‚ college of Science‚  Engineering‚ Pharmacy‚ AL- Khwarizmi Engineering).

         The researcher used SPSS to analyse the responses of the sample.

Results of the study:

• Heads of the department enjoy a good level of skills of administering time‚according to the responses of the staffers which are statistically significant at (0‚05%).
• Heads of the department do not suffer from waste of time.
• There is no a direct relationshipbetween the skills of administering time and wasting it.