A Study on the Factors to Affecting Career Success among Workers with Disabilities

지체장애근로자의 직업성공 요인에 관한 연구

This study was aimed at investigating important factors influencing career success among disabled workers. The current researcher scrutinized the degree to which variables and factors affect the career success and occupational turnover rates of the research participants. The participants in this study (n=837) were 374 workers with disabilities and 463 workers without disabilities. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: First, the results of factor analysis showed important categories of conceptual themes of career success. The initial conceptual factor model did not accord with the empirical one. Second, both research participant groups seemed to be influenced by their occupational types. However, all predictive variables excluding the wage rate and the average length of work years had significant impact on job success for the disabled work group, while all the variables excluding the frequency of advice and length of working years had significant impact on job success for the non-disabled worker group. Third, the turnover rate was significantly influenced by the age and the experience of turnover of the research participants. However, the number of co-workers was the strongest predictive variable for the worker group with disabilities, but the occupation choice variable for the worker group without disabilities. Fifth, as a result of verifying the hypothetical path model, it showed that the first model was somewhat proper and could predict the career success on both research participant groups. In conclusion, the following research implications can be suggested. The occupational type of research participants was one of the most important variables to predict the career success for both research participant groups.

지체장애근로자들의 직업성공에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 규명, 분석하고 이들의 경로를 조사하기 위해 연구에서 설정된 가설적 경로모형을 검증한 결과 제 1모형은 어느 정도 타당하게 직업성공을 예측할 수 있었으며, 제 2모형은 매우 적합한 모형으로 직업성공을 보다 높게 예측할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 연구결과는 장애인고용 서비스 과정 중에 사후지도의 중요한 자료로 활용될 수 있다. 현재 우리나라 장애인 고용촉진의 사후지도가 전화나 방문 등을 통해 지속적인 강화와 지원을 제공하고 있는 시점에서 본 연구결과를 통해 추출된 직업성공 요인을 바탕으로 하여 체크리스트와 계획서를 만들어 활용한다면 사후지도의 객관적인 준거를 세우는데 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.