著者

金森 史枝 蛭田 秀一 KANAMORI Nobue HIRUTA Shuichi

出版者

名古屋大学総合保健体育科学センター

雑誌

総合保健体育科学 (ISSN:02895412)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.43, no.1, pp.9-23, 2020-05-29

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The purpose of the study was to clarify what kind of impacts athletic club activities in university days have on job hunting and early stage career development around the 3rd year of employment through qualitative analysis, laying the concept of proactive as an analysis framework. The study interviewed Mr. A in the 3rd year of employment who belonged to an athletic club in his university days and started working after graduating from the first stage of the doctoral program. The interview revealed that Mr. A first found significance in having aspiration from his successful experience of getting into the college he had wanted to go after preparing for the entrance examination after failure in his first trial. So, he joined a triathlon club, which is one of athletic clubs, and proactively addressed organizational reform of the club and formed an organization which had not been established yet. Next, he worked on job hunting at his own responsibility and selected and joined a company in which he can utilize his specialized knowledge. After joining the company, he was assigned to the desired department where his strengths such as aggressiveness and leadership were highly evaluated in character evaluation. Furthermore, he is participating in corporate sports activities, deepening friendship with colleagues, and is positively involved in social contribution activities of the company. In this way, he is now living a fulfilling working life in the 3rd year of employment. As mentioned above, Mr. A has been selecting his behavior without shifting his principle “proactively behaving” and has been able to concretely demonstrate “proactive behavior”, that is, behavior by an individual of being actively engaged with an organization. Therefore, the hypothesis “students who are proactively participating in athletic club activities in university days enrich their university lives and aggressively conduct proactive behavior after starting working” has been validated. In addition, this study has proposed that the value of extracurricular activities in universities such as athletic clubs does not lie in belonging to an organization and instead it is necessary for a student to establish a self-sustained individual who has withdrawn from a “hierarchical system” in their voluntary activities. Studies of the impact of studying and other lives in universities on proactive behavior after starting working are meaningful, since almost no concrete or individual verification has been made on the theme because the theme began to gather attention recent years and few studies have been accumulated. However, this study is just one example, and a remaining future challenge is to proceed with the study focusing on various types of students. While various reforms have been promoted on university education, nothing is more important than proactive practices by students in formal curriculums and extracurricular activities in universities.

著者

金森 史枝 蛭田 秀一 KANAMORI Nobue HIRUTA Shuichi

出版者

名古屋大学総合保健体育科学センター

雑誌

総合保健体育科学 (ISSN:02895412)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.42, no.1, pp.7-20, 2019

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This study, focusing on the statement "Joining an collegiate sport club gives an advancement for employment", aims at clarifying how the difference in type of clubs as an extracurricular activity during college days affects the fulfillment of work and the work-life balance in the working adults' lives and how the difference in the current involvement status in sports relates to the working adults' lives. The research was conducted via internet for 800 working adults (400 males and 400 females) who are currently employed. The subjects were assigned to 4 categories regarding the activities at collegiate clubs or the others during college days: (1) those who belonged to sport clubs, (2) those who belonged to cultural clubs, (3) those who were involved in other activities, and (4) those who were involved in no activities. Statistical analyses were conducted using two-way variance analysis, ratio difference test, and logistic regression analysis. As a result, the following findings were obtained. The male subjects who currently play sports got significantly higher scores in the items related to fulfillment of work and the items related to work-life balance, which implies that sporting activities are a factor for living more positive working adults' lives. On the other hand, playing sports currently were not reflected in the items related to work-life balance for female subjects, which implies that the effect of sports may weaken in female workers' lives for being more difficult to balance work and housework/parenting. Next, regarding the statement "Joining an collegiate sport club gives an advancement for employment," it has been implied that the experience of playing sports as a part of their daily lives by joining an collegiate sport club during school days has led to realization of working adults' lives that achieve both the work and the sporting activities, and that this is the contemporary meaning of joining an collegiate sport club. In addition, the relationship between "those who currently play sports" and the promotion premium was also implied. These finding has helped demonstrate the necessity of encouraging working adults to participate in sporting activities.