This study aims to identify core competences required for sales representatives at securities branches in the field of business, to analyze differences in the competence according to factors such as gender and work experience, and ultimately to contri...
This study aims to identify core competences required for sales representatives at securities branches in the field of business, to analyze differences in the competence according to factors such as gender and work experience, and ultimately to contribute to the systematic human resource management of sales representatives at securities coorperation branches.For these purposes, we reviewed the meanings and concepts of human resource management and theories on competences and competence modeling, and conducted a questionnaire survey to diagnose the competences by position and by job category. The survey tool was designed to measure the importance of competences in performing roles according to the position of sales representatives at stock company branches sales representatives, the importance of competences by business process necessary in job category, and current performance.From the results of the survey conclusions were drawn as follows. First, as for core competences by the position of sales representatives at securities coorperation, clerks were supposed to execute practical works, collect information, refresh the atmosphere, and raise problems. The importance of competence was high in order of practical work performance, information collection, atmosphere refreshing, and problem raising. Deputy managers were supposed to be a communicator, the leader of changes, an expert in practical works and the leader of junior clerks in order of importance. Vice-directors and section chiefs were supposed to be a pinch hitter of the department head, a strategy/tactic maker, a coordinator with outsiders and an expert in business, and were supposed to be a trainer of the subordinate staff, a goal manager, a teamwork manager and a problem solver in order of importance.Second, core competences by the job category (AM/BK) of sales representatives at securities coorperations were, for the asset manager group, finding investment customers, contacting customers and identifying their needs, forming portfolio, giving consulting to customers and managing customers, and for consignment sales representative group, finding potential customers, contacting and attracting customers, giving consulting to customers, operating assets, and executing post management. In addition, differences in importance and performance were observed in each job category.Third, the importance and current performance of core competences were different according to sales representatives’ work experience and gender in each job category. Particularly in the asset manager group, women’s performance appeared higher, and in the consignment sales representative group, men’s performance appeared higher.If the Capital Market Unification Act (a law on financial investment business and the capital market) is enforced in 2008, “a financial big bang” will start, which is expected to overturn the frame of the domestic financial industry completely and bring cataclysmic changes throughout the money market. In the middle of the change is stock exchange business. Some people raise the possibility that stock companies will be dismissed from the market except a few major competitive ones. In the worst case, the domestic financial market may be devastated by foreign investment banks armed with advanced financial techniques and products. At such a crucial turning point, stock companies should cope with the situation actively through establishing advanced human resource management system and raising/securing various kinds of financial experts. Moreover, in addition to the core competences of sales representatives at securities branches identified in this research, we need to make research on core competences necessary in headquarters business, headquarters management, IT, research, branch operation, etc., and execute competence-based human resource management (CBHRM) throughout all job categories at securities.