Abstract
M.A.
This study aims to investigate career maturity and career developmental tasks of
cabin crew and ground personnel in an airline. This study set out to measure the
level of career maturity as well as the mastery of different career developmental
tasks. Fifty-one subjects partook in the study of which 30 persons are ground
staff and 21 cabin crew. By taking career maturity and the mastery of certain
career developmental tasks into consideration, the researcher can make certain
assumptions about the turnover of personnel. The measuring instruments that
will be used in this study include the Career Mastery Inventory (Crites, 1990), the
Self-Directed Search (Holland, 1985) and the Career Development Questionnaire
(Langley, 1989). Research questions that will be part of this study includes:
• what level of career maturity was achieved in each of the occupations;
• what developmental tasks were achieved, like organizational ability, position
performance, work habits and attitudes, advancement, career choice and
plans and co-worker relationships; and
• what coping mechanisms like adjustive, integrative and non-adjustive
coping skills were used in the solving of problems within the organization.
These factors will be taken into consideration to research the possible effect on
personnel turnover.