FACTORS AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF SECRETARIAL CAREER IN SOME SELECTED ORGANIZATION

FACTORS AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF SECRETARIAL CAREER IN SOME SELECTED ORGANIZATION (A CASE STUDY OF IN ENUGU CAPITAL TERRITORY)

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY:

The word; “secretary” has been defined by Oxford Dictionary as “one entrusted with the secrets or confidence despondence and manage router and detail work for superior.

According to secretaries have other managerial duties of dictation from the boss, answering  telephone calls, getting information, recording and  keeping information using  duplicating machine electric, and menual typewriter, computer internal, telex and so on. An office being  nerve center of an organization needs good managemented to achieve its desired goals.

However, there are certain factors which affect secretaries while on job and these minder  production and secretaries stability on this career.

Some of these factors are technological factors poor language structure, sociological factors environment factors, and economic factors.

Presently, the need for exposing secretaries to the use of modern office equipment has risen due to challenges they face in the modern word. The effect of language structure that secretaries in institute of management and Technology receive during truing can not be over emphasized as in labour marked available jobs are mean for those who have sound knowledge of good English.

1.2   STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

It is  degrading and under statement to say that secretarial career is of no importance because secretary is an eye opener. Through which every organization sees.

According to Onabanya (1990)  A secretary is a skilled and specialized type of  employee in an establishment  or part of it who is charged with some aspects of organization functions in the unit dealing with people correspondence and other business matters;

In today modern world secretaries are faced with a lot of challenges offices due to what they are required to offer. Therefore it is basically necessary that secretaries be giver equipment in institute of management and technology Enugu and other tertiary institution in Enugu capital territory.

This profession is a career that attracts disregard from people enqluating eyes. Most employers do not accord them a befitting recognition and respect, rather they show disregard and  disrespect for the career. Often the people misunderstand the word secretary. They are of the opinion that anybody who write some seen it as a mere woman’s career and non-prebtigions. The secretary suffers image and personality degrades and thus  crosses cabinet to other profession.

1.3   Purpose of the study

The purpose of this study is to highlight on find out the factors which affect secretarial career in some organization in Enugu capital territory. It would also look into the causes of  misconception and disregard for secretaries and their profession or career in our society and find solutions to these problem.

3.0    SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This research work is designed to finding out the factors affecting secretarial career in some selected organization in Enugu capital territory only.

Time constant: This  research work was carried out while school is still in session hence time contraption. The time for travelling to places to gather more facts was limited as I was doing the research work and also trying to meet up with my normal academic works.

As a result, this project work was affected to be restricted within the are of facts  I could get within. The should available time.

Finance! This is another problem the affected the effectiveness of this research work. As a student researcher, there not  enough money to assisa my self to make this work a standardized on there are some text books due to mortuary incapability and organization outside Enugu I could not visit them due to lack of finance to transport myself. In effect, this would was limited only a few organization

1.4    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This research will help to identify the factors that contribute to secretaries dissatisfaction in offices.

It will also reveal to prospective secretarial in the career what they should expect from the profession as regards people misconception and misunderstanding of the career.

1.5     SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This research work is designed to finding out the factors affecting secretarial career in some selected organization in Enugu capital territory only.

Time constraint! This research words was carried out while school is still in session hence, time constrain. The time for travelling to places to gather more facts was limited as I was doing the research work and also trying to meet up with my normal academic works. As a result, this project work was affected to be restricted within the ares of facts I could get within the short available time.

Finance! This is another problem that affected the effectiveness of this research work. As a student researcher, there was not enough money to assist myself to make this work a standardized one. There are some textbooks due to monetary incapability and organization outside Enugu. I could not visit them due to lack of finance to transport my self. In effect, this work was limited only a few organization.

1.6    HYPOTHESIS

Considering the nature and scope of this study, the following hypothesis were used as guide to this study.

(1)  Poor environment affects secretarial career in Enugu.

(2)  Language is a problem to secretaries

(3)  Secretaries are recognized as members of management team.

(4)  Lectures not properly guides the secretaries affect them in their career.

Secretarial suffers for inadequate equipment in some organization.