Job Content Analysis of Fashion Merchandisers

패션 머천다이저의 업무(業務)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究)

The purposes of the study were to investigate the job content of fashion merchandisers. The study examined the differences in the job content according to the types of merchandisers and their demographic characteristics. A questionnaire was developed by the authors and distributed to 150 fashion merchandisers, and 130 questionnaires were used for the study. The questions were revised through the pilot study and interviews with fashion merchandisers. The results of the study were as follows: Planning merchandise was the most important job to the planning merchandisers, purchasing merchandise to the buying merchandisers, planning sales and sales promotion to sales merchandiers. All three types of merchandisers were involved very much in the information analysis work. This study, on the basis of the above results, was expected to contribute to make the fashion merchandisers and students who want to be fashion merchandisers recognize their job content more clearly.