The effectiveness of hope-based career path counseling on the empowerment and executive functions of employees

Background: Career counseling is one of the ways to discover human resource abilities and employ people in the right place and time in the organization. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of career path counseling based on hope on the empowerment and executive functions of employees. Method: The present research was carried out in a semi-experimental way and a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the research included the employees of Amin University of Law Enforcement Sciences in 1402-1403. Among them, 40 people were randomly selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Data collection tools were Spritzer's Employee Empowerment Questionnaire (1995) and Root et al.'s (2005) adult executive function behavioral scale. The experimental group received hope-based career path counseling sessions for 6 sessions, and no intervention was implemented for the control group. In order to check the hypotheses of the research, analysis of covariance test was used with the help of SPSS26 software. Findings: The results showed that the average scores of job counseling based on the hope of increasing the ability of employees in the experimental group from 44.30 in the pre-test stage to 62.65 and the average executive functions of the experimental group employees from 116.50 in the pre-test stage to 140.65 It has reached the post-test stage. Conclusion: It is suggested to use the method of career path counseling based on hope with the implementation of specialized courses and workshops to improve the capabilities of employees.