1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
This topic intends to look into the problem and prospects of married female office manager do not accomplish or complete favorable with their single counterparts in business organization.
Many think that married female office manager are official wives to their bosses are more or less being misused by men subjective thinking. Married female office manager have chances of advancement to higher position in their organization. They perform creditably well when compared with their unmarried counterparts.
They are trained professional office managers and can use the experience and training to the best advantages when attending to visitors, directing subordinators or relating to colleagues in the business organization they also maintain very good relationships with bosses.
Who Is An Office Manager?
An office manager is a staff or executive responsible for the smooth operation of day-to-day business of the company. Here also make it possible for other people to functions effectively and efficiently, he works closely with company partners, owners or president to meet there companies set objectives. Office manager perform the following functions:
- Photocopying document,
- Searching for information,
- Retrieving information,
- Arranging meetings,
- Maintaining financial record,
- Preparing out going mails,
- Accommodating costumers,
- Composing letters and memorandum,
- Maintaining files and data bases to maintain but a few.
With all the above listed duties or functions of an office manager many people begin to doubt the possibility of married female office manager adapt to the situation. A married female office manager faces with two things which are her marital responsibility and office work. In the domestic the married office manager must additional take care of the house or her house and fulfill her marital obligation.
She have to give full service or take care of her children and husband. Given the amount of domestic responsibility of a problem of combining the services of her boss and services to her family. An office manager might be required to travel with her boss for conferences and board meetings, but when the married female office manager is involved, some problems are encountered as it is not easy for her to have her family being, as she travels with the boss and leaving the office at the peak time.
According to Njoku C.U and Nwosu A.N. (2010) some of the problems encountered by married female office manager may be inherited in todays office while some include those emanating from her boss, visitors and other staff of organizations.
Those problems inherited in today's office may be the nature of the work. A honest married female office manager will find it very difficult to cope with the challenges of the office work more especially when it comes to traveling with her boss. And again during pregnancy she is most likely to find it difficult to carryout her responsibilities. Given all these responsibilities, a married female office manager in a chosen business organization has a number of problems to encounter.
Married female office manager are misused and underutilized. They are been given jobs that normally meant for their inferiors or subordinates they are not motivated and again they are not regularly promoted and at the same time not rewarded by their employers. They are not provided with adequate equipment therefore, this research probes into the causes of this problem.
1.2 Statement Of The Problem
In the search for identifying the duties of married female office managers, it was discovered that they are faced with numerous problems. To be able to put in outs time in the practice of the profession. The married female office manager has the problem of combining office service and that of the domestic services.
Besides, they are being provided with a poor equipment by the management which result to their inefficiency and low productivity. Above all the married female office manager are not properly motivated. It is in the process of contributing to the solving of these problem that the writer has divided to find solution that can help future researchers.
Every organizations needs the services of competent office manager that can represent them internally and externally and that can maintain their image. It is in order to achieve this objective that this researcher was carried out so as to identify the problems encountered by married female office manager and at the same time find likely solutions to the problems.
1.3 Objective Of The Study
The main objective of carrying out this research is to achieve the following objectives;
- To identify the causes of occupational problems affecting married female office managers.
- To highlight the problems confronting married female office managers in selected organizations.
- To examine the prospects of married female office managers.
- To recommend ways and means of motivating married female office managers.
1.4 Research Questions
This study answers the following question;
- What are the regular causes of problems for married female office manager?
- Are married female office managers sexually harassed and underutilized by their bosses?
- Do they give more attention to their personal or domestic responsibilities than their official duties?
- Can married female office managers be rewarded like their unmarried counterparts?
1.5 Significance Of The Study
Married female office managers are of tremendous importance to the organization. This study is important to organizations and individuals in order to:
- Highlight the problems of married female office managers and the causes of such problems.
- To make likely suggestions for lasting solution to the problems confronting married female office managers.
- To find the prospects of married female office managers in selected organization.
- Finally, this study acts as a corner-stone for future researcher on the subject matters.
1.6 Scope Of Study
The scope of this study will be within the confines of the stated objective. Because of this reason, this work covers very far selected business organization.
1.7 Limitations of the Study
During the course of this study, many things militated against its completion, some of which are:
- Time Constraint: The time frame given to accomplish this project was very short due to school academic calendar and it was carried out under pressure which made the researcher not to implement some necessary features.
- Establishment Policies: Establishment policies posed a serious limitation as most staffs are not ready to release information needed for this project work. There were lots of information needed from the staffs of this institution to enhance the study which took them time to release or they did not release at all for security purposes, hence the scope was reduced.
- Research material: availability of research material is a major setback to the scope of the study.