Research Information System
Öztürk Başpınar N. (Executive), Şen O., Karaman H.
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions, BAP Research Project, 2023 - 2024
Career adaptability means having the resources that will enable an individual to cope with the
difficult situations he/she will encounter in career transitions. Career adaptability is a psychosocial structure that changes employees' social life compatibility at a certain level and shows
the individual resources they need to cope with the traumas and transitions they encounter or
may encounter in the context of their roles in working life. Career adaptability makes
employees prepared for the uncertainties of changing environmental-business conditions and
unpredictable changes and makes it easier for them to carry out this process correctly. Since
the basic elements of private or public sector activities are offices, the subject has been
deemed worthy of research with the prediction that the development of office
managers/assistants, who have an important role in the offices, through in-service training
practices will contribute to their career adaptation. The main question of the research is "Is it
possible to improve the career adaptability and office technology competencies of office
managers and assistants through in-service training?" It was determined as . The population of
the research, which was designed as a mixed one due to the main research question and
problem situation, consists of Anadolu University office managers/assistant staff, and the
sample consists of domestic/international office managers/assistants of Anadolu University
Open Education System. In the quantitative dimension of the research, the data were collected
electronically in two scale forms. After analyzing the responses, the participants were given
distance in-service training. Then, the scale forms (pre-test) applied to the participants before
the in-service training were re-applied (post-test) after the in-service training and the answers
given by the participants before and after the in-service training were compared. The
qualitative dimension of the research was designed as a case study. The data were collected
from the participants electronically and with semi-structured questions. The qualitative
research helped to understand the quantitative research findings in depth and finally, the data
were evaluated holistically.