The Effectiveness of Positive Psychology Group Trainingon Job Passion and Job Motivation of Employees

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors

1 Master student of job counseling, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology and Health, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of group training based on Positive Psychology on the work engagement and work motivation of laboratory employees of Modarres Hospital. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test, and control group. The study's statistical population includes all laboratory employees (80 individuals) of Modares Hospital in 2019. In these centers, 30 individuals were selected to participate in this study by simple random sampling and randomly divided into experimental (n=15) and control (n =15) groups. The research instruments included the Work Engagement Scale (UWES; Schaufeli, Martínez, et al., 2002) and the Employee Work Motivation (Wright, 2004). To analyze the data obtained and test the research hypotheses, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and univariate analysis of covariance were used, using SPSS-24 software. The results showed that group training based on positivity significantly increased employees' work motivation (F=16.09, p<0.001) and employees' work motivation (F=19.23, p<0.001). Therefore, this method can be used to promote employee motivation and work engagement in organizations.

Keywords


Arifin, Freddy; Troena, Eka Afnan; Djumahir; and Rahayu, Mintarti (2014). The Influence of Organizational Culture, Leadership, And Personal Characteristics towards Work Engagement and Its Impacts on Teacher’s Performance. International Journal of Business and Management Invention, 3 (1), PP. 20-29
Halldorsdottir, S., Einarsdottir, E. J., & Edvardsson, I. R. (2018). Effects of cutbacks on motivating factors among nurses in primary health care. Scandinavian journal of caring sciences, 32(1), 397-406.‏
-Jahri, M., Fereid, Z., & Dehghan, A. (2017). Effectiveness of positive thinking training program on nurses’ quality of work life through smartphone applications. International scholarly research notices, 2017.‏
Morley, S. (2015). Single cases are complex Illustrated by Flink et al.‘Happy despite pain: A pilot study of a positive psychology intervention for patients with chronic pain’. Scandinavian journal of pain, 7(1), 55-57.
Ping, L. L Hee, O. C., Kamaludin, N. H.,. (2016). Motivation and Job performance among nurses in the health tourism hospital in Malaysia. International Review of Management and Marketing, 6(4), 668-672.‏
Steijn, B., & van der Voet, J. (2019). Relational job characteristics and job satisfaction of public sector employees: When prosocial motivation and red tape collide. Public Administration, 97(1), 64-80.‏.
Thieme, P., Brusch, M., & Büsch, V. (2015). The role of continuing training motivation for work ability and the desire to work past retirement age. European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 6(1), 25-38.
Tran, Q. (2018). Employee Engagement-How does the organization increase engagement?–From the viewpoint of HR representatives in Finland