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A Study Of The Sociological Factors Affecting Professional Secretarial Career In Nigeria
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1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
It
is an understatement to say that the professional secretarial career is
unimportant. It is obvious that it is much important, it is also
competitive and marketable and deserves nothing but recognition from
every perceiving eye. A training secretary is capable and prominent
office hand hence has presence is essential to the office. Infact, he is
the boss as a nurse or a paramedical staff into the office. Surgeon and
this contributes is no small way to the success of the boss and the
entire organization.
The secretary profession is indeed on career
that attracts a discrimination image from society’s evaluating eyes.
Most managers who require to assistance of the secretary in the office
fail totally to accord him a befitting recognition, rather they show
disregard and disrespect for the career.
As a matter of fact, the
word secretary is often misunderstood by many people. While some are of
the opinion that anybody who can write short-hand and use typewriter as
well as known as a secretary, others see it as merely a woman’s career
and consequently, a non –prestigious one
The trend of though is due
to a misconception and the culminating results from this trend of events
are for reaching and affects the secretarial career very adversely. The
secretary feels slighted, he is demotivated both to join and stay in
the profession, he suffers image and personality (ego) problems and
these accounts for his detraction and adherence and thus mass exodus to
other profession.
Based on the foregoing, therefore the study was
geared towards identifying the factors responsible for the
dissatisfaction of professional secretaries on their job performance and
solutions to salvage the profession.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The
purpose of this study is to investigate the causes of non-recognition
of secretaries and their profession or career along side similar
professions in our society. To achieve these objectives and these
following research questions will be answered.
1. To know the challenges faces Prof. Secretaries in their job performance.
2. To what extent do these challenges Prof. secretaries stability in the career.
3. To know the measured could be taken to solve this problem.
4. To identify’ s those factors that affect secretaries on the job function.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The aim of this research work was to find out how aid what type of sociological factors that affect professional secretaries in their career. Secretaries and their bosses were selected from different organizations as well as the student secretaries of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology and those of the college of education both in Port-Harcourt metropolis. The instruments used in this study were questionnaire and face to face oral interview. These were administered to the samp ... Continue reading---
