The purpose of this study is to identify the current status of female managers in public institutions by comparatively analyzing how personal qualities and personal environmental variables affect the career success of female managers, and to provide r...
The purpose of this study is to identify the current status of female managers in public institutions by comparatively analyzing how personal qualities and personal environmental variables affect the career success of female managers, and to provide rational and realistic organizational management plans.
To this end, a questionnaire survey was conducted on eight female public-level managers and above at public institutions working on domestic power generation, and a total of 171 survey results were collected. Individual qualities variables (education, personality, motivation for achievement, work ability) and individual environmental variables (marriage status, parenting status, spouse's attitude, household support level) were set as independent variables. In addition, objective career success and subjective career success (career satisfaction, job satisfaction) were set as dependent variables.
In addition, in order to supplement the results of statistical analysis and to contain the actual stories of employees who are not clearly revealed by statistics, in-depth interviews were conducted with 8 employees, and the following research results could be derived.
First, among the independent variables, 'education' had a significant effect on the object career success. On the other hand, the personality and ability of the individual expected to affect the promotion did not have a significant effect, and the personal environment variables were also not significant.
Second, the personal qualities variable 'neuroticism' and 'environmental spouse's attitude toward women's professional life' had a significant effect on career satisfaction.
Third, there was a positive effect on the job satisfaction, personal trait variables, job ability and motivation for achievement. On the other hand, the personal environment, which was expected to affect an individual's subjective career success, was found to have no significant effect. This is due to the active use of family-friendly policies, and the degree of stress caused by parenting has decreased compared to before, and the joy and reward felt as a parent.
Through these findings, the following policy implications can be suggested. First, this study confirmed that the government's family-friendliness has been properly infiltrated into public institutions and has a positive effect on female employees, which has played a large role in smoothly fulfilling the roles of women and employees. Therefore, the government’ family-friendly proliferation drive should continue more consistently. Second, these results are from public institutions, so it is necessary to consider the incentive plan that enables private organizations to actively utilize family-friendly degrees. Third, as a result of the research, it was found that there are still external factors such as social networking and academic relations, and high-level managers’ subjective opinions. Therefore, public institutions should make more efforts to change existing practices and establish a rational personnel promotion system. Fourth, as a result of interviews, depending on the organization, the “transfer to other regions after promotion” system acted as a factor to prevent the promotion of female employees. There seems to be a need to think about policy supplementation.
Next, based on this research, suggestions for follow-up research are as follows. First, this study did not include representatives and managers who were unable to promote or give up due to personal circumstances. Although in-depth interviews were conducted, since the number of interviewees was limited to 8, the representativeness was limited, so in order to derive accurate research results, it is necessary to expand the sample subjects by rank. Second, although the samples were selected as eight institutions, more meaningful results could be obtained if comparative studies were conducted by increasing the number of target institutions and, if possible, expanding them to private enterprises to derive more accurate research results. Third, since this study is a cross-sectional study, it is necessary to divide the questionnaire into 3-4 groups for each longevity in order to analyze longitudinal trend.