Most of organizations will experience of hiring new members, or of having members leaving their groups. The psychological state of group members occurring during a process and from a result of it influences their adaptation abilities on new tasks and ...
Most of organizations will experience of hiring new members, or of having members leaving their groups. The psychological state of group members occurring during a process and from a result of it influences their adaptation abilities on new tasks and on new atmosphere of organizations. Such an importance of adaptation to changes is not exception in secretary position. However, it is yet difficult to find literatures describing the causes of secretary’s job change, and mental state of them resulting from change its process.
This study aims on investigating what are determinants on job changes in the secretary who assists the core of the organization, and what kind of psychological state they go through during a process of turnover by performing quality analysis via interviews.
To accomplish this, 25 people were interviewed who has experienced job change as a secretary in Seoul, and Gyeonggi-based companies. All interviews were recorded with the consent of the interviewee, and used as materials for analysis after transcribing.
The results on the analysis of the interviews are as follows. First, the factors determining secretary’s job change can be classified into two big categories, organization related stressors, and task related stressors. Low possibility of promotion, form of employment, complaints about salary and benefits, change the position of chief, discomfort organizational culture from divided group atmosphere between experts and secretaries, and company crisis coming from its financial difficulties can be classified as organization related stressors. On the other hand, the close of office hours, scope of secretary’s work, and work style of boss can be categorized into task related stressors. In addition, sexual harassment, insufficient ability for secretary position, appropriate time to change occupation also have impact on turnover of secretaries.
Secondly, the psychological state of the secretaries at a time of retirement is divided by the presence or the absence of work to move on. The secretaries who have guaranteed job position to move on prior to retirement, feel thrill and expectation about new task. Whereas, the secretaries who do not have guaranteed job place after retirement, tend to think that the period after quitting a job can be used as opportunity to refresh rather than having stress and pressure on themselves.
Thirdly, the majority of secretaries tend to have some period of time before getting a position in new company, and most of them experienced tough and difficult mental state such as restlessness, depression, hopelessness, and loss of confidence during that time.
Lastly, the satisfaction about the new position after secretaries make the transition to a new company is divided into different state whether it was voluntary or involuntary. It is shown that secretaries changing a job voluntarily generally tend to satisfy with their new job, whereas involuntary ones dose not.
With such significance as a result of this study are as follows. First, this study demonstrated job change determinants which haven’t been researched before. The previous researches on the intention of the secretary’s job change is limited. They considered determinants as dependent variables, and only analyzed the correlation between dependent variables and independent variables. Whereas this study suggested what are determinants affecting on secretary’s job change. Secondly, this literature also demonstrated a change of psychological state during a process and a result of job change. Since this psychological change affects significantly on the adapting ability to new task and organization, this study looked into mentality of secretary from a result and during a process of job change.
In spite of significances of this study, this study has some limitations. It is only qualitative study, and the configuration of sample is restricted to secretaries who have experienced job change as a secretary for the secretary in Seoul, and Gyeonggi-based companies. For these reasons, it is hard to generalize only with provided results. This study is expected to be valuable when defects of this literature are compensated, and when it is used to decrease the employment serration rate of a secretary.