Development of information technology and globalization influence overall society including industry, market, and education in colleges. These make business services including personnel- supply services the largest and fastest growing division. Also, ...
Development of information technology and globalization influence overall society including industry, market, and education in colleges. These make business services including personnel- supply services the largest and fastest growing division. Also, these affect the role and work scope of the secretary. Employers demand that their secretaries be skilled in new and emerging technology, provide broader skills beyond the traditional scope of the secretary, and demonstrate strong interpersonal skills. The interpersonal skills can include effective listening, good writing, strong negotiating and oral communication skills. The trend affects job training of the secretary and curriculum in the college.
The educational development and the curricular improvement of secretarial studies in domestic junior colleges were evaluated and analyzed to find an optimum curriculum for secretarial studies in the information-oriented and globalized society.
By analyzing the data during the last 17 years, it was found that the above tendency had a positive effect on secretarial studies in domestic junior colleges. The major of secretarial studies in domestic junior colleges had increased very rapidly in 1990s according to industrial and societal changes such as the above trend. It first opened in Ewha Womans University in 1968 and opens in 27 junior colleges in 2002. Especially it has made a remarkable growth in Seoul and the metropolitan area since 1999. It is fixed as the major of vocational and professional training for women in junior colleges.
Many studies on the curriculum of secretarial studies were performed in 1990s. Their current curricula in 17 junior colleges were analyzed as the follow-up study of Juwon Lee's study of 1997. Some secretarial studies, which had opened in 1997 and employed full-time instructor who had majored in secretarial studies, have improved their curricula much better than the others. Also, the importance of information and communication has been reflected in their curricula. All affiliated courses are the worst to improve their curricula and lose their competitiveness as practical job training course in junior colleges.