Non-university high school student motivation career choice

Tyrimo objektas: profesijos pasirinkimo motyvacija. Tyrimo metodai: 1. Mokslinės, periodinės literatūros analizė. 2. Kiekybinio tipo standartizuota anoniminė apklausa raštu (anketa). 3. Statistinių duomenų apdorojimas SPSS 16.0 programa ir Microsoft Excel programa. Analizuojant duomenis, buvo skaičiuojamos aprašomosios statistikos, tikrinamos statistinės hipotezės apie skirtumus tarp vidurkių dažnumų bei požymių tarpusavio priklausomumą, taikytas faktorinės analizės metodas. Tyrimo rezultatai: Buvo įvertinti Kauno kolegijos Verslo vadybos fakulteto, vadybininko profesiją ir Kraštotvarkos fakulteto, geodezininko profesiją studijuojančių studentų išoriniai ir vidiniai motyvai profesijos pasirinkimui ir atskleisti prioritetiniai motyvai. Pagrindiniai išoriniai motyvai – noras gauti aukštojo mokslo diplomą, savarankiškumo siekis. Mažiausiai respondentus motyvuoja jų profesijų paklausumas darbo rinkoje. Aklas sekimais draugais, šalies ekonominė situacija ir tėvų bei artimųjų įtaka renkantis profesiją reikšmės neturėjo. Pagrindiniai vidiniai motyvai – pašaukimas atitinkamai profesijai, profesinis ketinimas, specialieji gabumai, polinkiai bei poreikiai. Respondentus mažiausiai motyvuoja: tinkamumas pasirinktai profesijai, vertybės, temperamentas bei sveikatos būklė. Apibendrinus visus rezultatus galima teigti, jog dauguma respondentų yra pakankamai motyvuoti bei patenkinti savo pasirinkta profesija ir jų prioritetiniai motyvai yra šie: noras gauti aukštojo mokslo diplomą; tėvų išsilavinimas; noras tapti savarankiškais; noras save realizuoti; gabumai; atitinkami gebėjimai; polinkiai pasirinktai profesijai ir pasitenkinimas pasirinkta profesija.Sooner or later every person gives thought to his/her place in life. It is no wonder that the following question raise to everyone: Who am I? What would I like to be? What am I able to and what can I develop in myself? Where is my place in the world? We answer these questions not by words but by actions. The most important answer is the choice of an occupation, to what and for what we will dedicate our energy and the most beautiful years of the life. The statement that for a young man it is important to choose an occupation properly does not raise any doubts or contradictions. Whether a man will have an inner fight of motives – whether to get up for work or not – for the rest of his life depends on the fact if a man is able to choose a work that corresponds to his personality interests, skills, addictions… Whether a man will go to work with pleasure and satisfaction or led by duty and material motives. Choosing an occupation is one of the most relevant problems; the growth of a man’s personal wealth depends on the appropriate solution of this problem. The choice of an occupation often is affected by outer factors (prestige, payment, status and alike). Then a man is stimulated to work by his/her self-persuasion, great strong-willed attitude and all these can raise different conflicts for a personality. In order to avoid this, it is necessary to choose an occupation rationally, systematically – seeking inner harmony which is possible only knowing one’s addictions, interests, skills, work content and following inner motives (Petrauskaite, 1996; Lauzackas, 1999; Stanisauskiene, 2000). A successful choice of an occupation mostly depends on a person who wants to motivate himself/herself, to form his/her career actively and to be responsible for it. A better knowledge of yourself and surroundings help to get better self-motivation for the development of a career and help to set new tasks. A properly chosen occupation gives the possibility to satisfy one’s needs and gain experience. A man is successful only then when he/she chooses his way of life properly. Motivation emerges as an essential inner strength when choosing an occupation as well as while forming future career. If there is no strong wish or inner motivation, career and work will be colourless, undistinguished and without challenges. Only a person who is sufficiently motivated will be able to perform his/her duties successfully and to realize his/her tasks ensuring the success of an organization at the same time. A natural man’s goal is self-realization and it includes the development of all dimensions of a personality. In the maturation and development of a young man comes a stage when the train of constant choices begins. At the beginning, a personality grows and forms, later he/she constantly chooses. The choices continue for the whole life; however the most important ones are the choices of a partner and occupation that are made in the age of early maturation. For a young man it is important to develop the skill to know himself/herself, evaluate his/her goals and skills, realize his/her needs, addictions and possibilities, understand the goal and responsibility of life and work. Therefore the knowledge of motivational system is really relevant. This helps to reveal what is actual, significant, valuable and important for a man. Generally the choice of occupation is a process of development where experience and maturation enable people to develop, change and broaden self-knowledge, gain insight about different jobs and to combine the chosen occupation with his/her skills, needs, values. Choosing an occupation is a lasting and complicated motivational process conditioning a person’s choice for his/her life. It is determined that various inner and outer factors determine the choice of occupation: family, age, results of studies in a secondary school, aspiration of schoolchildren, skills of a schoolchild, attraction to a certain field, prestige of an occupation which most often relates to the situation in the labour market, education of parents and a lot of other factors (Leonavicius, 1996). Today, it is not easy to choose an occupation. In the world of labour, there are thousands of occupations that change: the new ones appear and the old ones modify or die. The changes are happening not only in the outside, but also in the inside – in the personality of a man. Having made the analysis of the majority of the works of scientists, it appeared that the motivation of the choice of an occupation has been analyzed in theoretical as well as empirical aspects; however, it was impossible to make the analysis of motivation of the choice of an occupation of higher non-university schools’ students whose education is oriented to the usage of practical knowledge, relations with the world of labour. Research relevance. Although recently more and more possibilities of choice of an occupation emerge in Lithuania, a lot of young people still are not able to choose their future occupation reasonably and deliberately, to discover appropriate balance between their goals and possibilities existing in the society. The relevance of a motivated choice of an occupation can be defined by the following methods: • The number of students who do not finish their studies will decrease as it often happens due to the non-existence of motives of occupation choice, not wanting to study the disciplines necessary for the occupation; • There is migration of students to other faculties, study programs due to the false choice of an occupation; • The number of persons changing their occupation after graduation or training and having acquired a speciality is increasing. The object of the research is motivation of an occupation choice. The issue of the research: “What are the motives of an occupation choice of students who have chosen the non-university higher school?” The purpose of the research is to determine the dominant motive of an occupation choice in non-university higher schools. The goals of the research: 1. To reveal the outer motives of an occupation choice; 2. To determine the effect of inner motives on the choice of an occupation; 3. To distinguish priority motives on the choice of an occupation.Vytauto Didžiojo universiteta