Because the paradigm of welfare for the disabled has been changed into independent life from rehabilitation, the personal assistance service(PAS) was enforced in 2007 and Acts on supporting the activities of the disabled were legislated in 2010. For t...
Because the paradigm of welfare for the disabled has been changed into independent life from rehabilitation, the personal assistance service(PAS) was enforced in 2007 and Acts on supporting the activities of the disabled were legislated in 2010. For these reasons, personal assistants who are charging in direct face-to-face service for the disabled's independence life have performed important roles.
The purposes of this study were to identify influential factors of a personal assistant's intention of turnover and to provide fundamental data for developing related strategies and programs. The factors that influence on the intention of turnover of personal assistants were divided by individual factors, job factors, organizational factors and five research subjects were set.
First, What is the level of the intention of turnover of personal assistants for the disable ?
Second, Is there a significant difference in the intention of turnover of personal assistants for the disabled depending on individual factors?
Third, the intention of turnover of personal assistants for the disabled and job factors are significantly related ?
Fourth, Is there a significant difference in the intention of turnover of personal assistants for the disabled depending on organizational factors?Fifth, what is the most significant impact on the intention of turnover of personal assistants for the disabled?
The survey was conducted with 284 personal assistants of three centers for independent living of person with disabilities and one welfare center of disabled people in Deajeon and Cheongju. SPSS/WIN 12.0 statistics programs was used.
Summary of the analysis results were as follows.
First, the level of the intention of turnover of personal assistants for the disabled was average 2.444 point.
Second, there were gender, age, level of education, term of working, average income in individual factors of personal assistants for the disabled. Among those individual factors, only average income(β=-.005, p<0.05) was significantly related to the intention of turnover. It was investigated that average income is higher, the intention of turnover is lower.
Third, job factors of personal assistants for the disabled are satisfaction of job itself, satisfaction of job in general, satisfaction for pay, organization commitment, repetitive jobs, satisfaction about supervision, job performance, clarity of roles. And all variables above listed and the intention of turnover indicated negative correlations.
Satisfaction of job in general(β=-.616, p<0.01), satisfaction of job itself(β=-.428, p<0.01), satisfaction for pay(β=-.185, p<0.05) had a strong effect on the intention of turnover. It meant that those satisfactions got bigger, the intention of turnover got smaller.
Fourth, there was also a significant negative linear correlation between the intention of turnover and opportunities of training, a organizational factor of personal assistants for the disabled. More opportunities of education targeting personal assistants for the disabled helped personal assistants for the disabled work without considering the turnover.
In conclusion, the intention of turnover of personal assistants for the disabled should be reduced to operate PAS stably and to provide high quality service for people with disabilities.
In order to be lower the intention of turnover, satisfactions of job itself, of job in general, and for pay should be improved and average incomes should be increased. It was found that appropriate training also needed. Therefore authorities and policy-makers that passively deal with treatments of personal assistants could use these results as the fundamental data for solving the turnover problems. This study could be used the material for further researches.