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Professional Ethics In Secretarial Practice And The Level Of Job Performance Of Secretaries
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A profession is a calling, a vacation,
especially in an occupation involving high education or technical
qualification to be competent, and conscientious. It is what one shows
great skill and competence in.
The profession entails truthfulness
objectivity, honesty and likes i.e the canons and the codes of the
profession must be strictly taken into cognizance, in other not to dent
the image of the profession and secretaryship as the life-wire of a
company/organization.
Furthermore Olufemi Onabanjo (2003) said an act
is morally good if it does no harm to anybody, the views that human
nature is basically goes has many supporters in the ethical field of
philosophy.
A secretary can be described as anybody who is assigned
to record sp of a meeting, irrespective of his or her secretarial
skills. The Oxford Advance Learners Dictionary of Current English
describes a secretary as an employee in an office who deals with
correspondence, keeps records makes arrangements and appointment for
members of staff. “The catalystâ€, a magazine of Oyo State public
services, described a secretary as “someone who acts on behalf of the
boss. They can be regarded as the co-coordinator of administrative work
of a given department. Secretary deals with the day-to-day activities of
establishment, he serves as an image maker of the establishment to the
outside world and part of this ethics is to keep all information in the
office secret.
The secretaries profession is a dynamic one. This is
not because they need secretaries in every organization, but because one
of the yard sticks for judging the growth and standard of an
organization is the quality of its secretarial service. The secretarial
profession require some qualities according to Olufemi Onabanjo (2004),
says a secretary must have the following qualities:
Sincerity: A secretary must be sincere in whatever the situation she may find herself.
Urgency:
A secretary is not expected to be sincere in expression of any opinion
but also to be up and doing At all times. She must not be show in all
her work.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research project was carried out using The Polytechnic Ibadan, Adeseun Ogundoyin Campus, Eruwa as a case study.Categories of Secretaries and HOD/HOU were used to gather information on the above topic. Questionnaire and interviews were methodology adopted.It was discovered that training played a major impact on the Job performance of Secretaries, but it is not is isolation as other factors also contributed to the performance of Secretaries.It was recommended among other terms that student an ... Continue reading---
