Industrial psychology. I need to write about article that Tomas Jungert wrote. C
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Industrial psychology.
I need to write about article that Tomas Jungert wrote.
Can i know description of the authors’ motivational intervention and at least one theory that they used to explain why their intervention should work?
Here is an Intro section that he wrote
- "Organisations have flattened and increasingly rely on teamwork. Therefore, colleagues play an increasingly important role in stimulating employee motivation. Adopting Self-Determination Theory as a guiding framework, the aim of this field experiment was to examine whether team members can be trained in supporting each others basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness and, hence, increase each others need satisfaction and autonomous motivation, while decreasing controlled motivation. We delivered training to 146 participants nested in 26 participating teams and assessed basic need satisfaction and autonomous and controlled motivation before and after the intervention. Multilevel regression analyses indicated that employees in the experimental (i.e. intervention) condition had a stronger increase in need satisfaction and autonomous motivation than employees did in the control condition, and that the increase in autonomous motivation was mediated by an increase in need satisfaction. This study provides added value for theory on need satisfaction and demonstrates that a relatively brief intervention among team members may be effective in creating employee need support and increasing autonomous motivation."
Explanation / Answer
Researchers used Self Determination Theory to study the impact of co-workers in motivating their colleagues. According to this theory, people make their own decisions without any pressure or external force thus developing autonomy, competence and relatedness. Researchers studied 146 workers who were put into 26 different teams and trained them on motivating their colleagues at work. They wanted to prove that colleagues could do most of the tasks of encouragement, treating people fairly and guide people when they struggle thus giving more autonomy to the employees and this will further lead to developing competency which will help them relate to high performance from which they derive job satisfaction and happiness. The research proved that people in the experimental group showed more autonomy, competence and relatedness when compared to the control group who didn’t receive any treatment. The relationship among the employees and the support from the co-workers boosts the morale of the employees which leads to high job satisfaction and productivity.