韓國 經營人의 秘書觀 = A Study of Korean Executives' Image of Secretaries

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

While more and more women in Korea are becoming career oriented in parallel with our rapid economic development, their opportunities for social debouchment are still limited in many ways. Women with higher education find it especially difficult to find jobs in their fields of specialization, and few are employed. Compared with other occupations, secretarial job for women are more extensively open to them as a result of technical business improvement and modernization. It can therefore be said that the secretrial career is becoming one strategic factor in women's social advancement which may enetually lead to an enhancement of women's status in socity as a whole.
Some colleges and universitied, foreseeing the rapidly developing industrial needs of society, havw developed female labor resources by rasing secretrial atandards through education. The level and degree to which their efforts will succeed in making actual contributions depends largely upon the employers use of womanpower resources.
The manner in which business executives perceive secretrial roles and the responsibilities and duties executives assugn their secretaries will have a strong influence on secretarial education and positions.
The purpose of this survey is to study Korean executives' concepts of their secretaries' status and performance. Questionnaires were given to 500 Korean executives covering domestic and foreing financed firms in Seoul. A random sampling of 435 individuals was made.
A brief summary of the results show following:
(1) Korea has achieved phenomenal economic and social growth over the past dacade as a result of its Five-Year Economic Development Plans. Its business society today is playing a major role in the raoid transition to industrialization and has close contact with the rest of the world. This behavior is characterized by a complex structural duality; that is, modernity and tradition. This duality is also fiund in the secreterial images Koream executives. The survey reveals that many executives regard their secretaried in a modern sense as an indispensable office partner for the attainment of company goals.
They expect their secretaries to bring to the secretaial position more intelligence, more formal education at the college level, more initiative, better judgment, better office skills, and better appearance. But in the actual assigment of duties to their secretaries, quite a number of executives reveal traditional attitudes in their treatment of female workers. According to the survey, executives prefer single young secretaries, and they rank loyalty and obedience rether than secretarial office skills as the mostimportant qualifications for a good secretary. Furthermore, they do not have confidence in their secretaries by Western standards. In addition, only a very small number of secretaries are given the opportunity to participate in management decision processed, or to prove their ability in handling administrative and executive responsibilities.
(2) The tendencies indicated by this survey are that the better the executives' education, the more likely they are to regard the secretary as a key person on the office staff, and that the secretarial images of the younger executives in their 30's are more modern and progressive than those of the late 40's age group. The professional managers who pursue the rationalism of modern management are willing to share responsibilities with their secretaries on an equal basis.
The professionalism of the secretarial career is also more highly respected in the more educated executive group. Since our sicioeconomic progress is expected to continue at a speedy pace during the coming decade, the increasing demand for well-trained secretaries will expedite the upgrading of secretarial position in Korean business socity.
(3) Severe competition in international markets and structural changes in our economic socity in the coming years can only be successfulty met with technical innovations in industrial development, with the fullest possible use of potential manpower. In these circumstances, rationalized management, increased employee productivity, and the efficiency of management by specialized women's professions will inevitably occur.
With rapid economic growth, the demand for professional managers who understand the discipline of management and who also have knowledge in all disciplines that have relevance to management will increase at an unexpectedly rapid pace. Therefore, the demand for able secretaries who can demonstrate initiative, provide more assistance, and assume many secretarial resposibilities performed by male workers, will become more apparent in view of the manpower scarcity that has recently begun to appear.
(4) The coming era is said to be an age of apecialization, and to develop specialized manpower will take a long time. In a specialized socity, secretaries will have to meet greater performance demands. The ability of a technician will be required to increase in relationship to pur scientific and technological progress, which has already brought about tremendous changes.
As trade and communication among nations increase, and industrial firms become multi-national in character, the education of secretaries of excellent caliber, intelligence, and skills should be platarial standards and meeting the demand for secretaries, secretarial education has a double value: developing surplus female labor which can be mobilized immediately to meet the nation's economic needs and industrial advance on one hand, and an enhancement of women's social status in society on the other.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 序論
• Ⅱ. 調査方法
• A. 調査對象者
• B. 調査對象者의 秘書
• Ⅲ. 調査結果 分析
• A. 採用方法 및 條件
• B. 業務 遂行能力과 資質 重視度
• C. 信賴度
• D. 人間 및 業務關係
• E. 經營에 의한 參與度
• F. 專門職으로서의 認識度
• Ⅳ. 要約 및 結論
• A. 秘書觀에서의 傳統과 近代의 二重性
• B. 秘書觀과 現實的인 秘書機能間의 乖離
• C. 앞으로의 展望
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