This study is to review the factors influencing the empowerment and human resource management of the Mental health specialists working at the community Mental Health Center, and level of organizational effectiveness and organizational effectiveness. T...
This study is to review the factors influencing the empowerment and human resource management of the Mental health specialists working at the community Mental Health Center, and level of organizational effectiveness and organizational effectiveness. To accomplish the mentioned purpose, this study selects sex, age, education, religion, marital status, mental health qualification certificate, position title, duration of mental health specialist career, duration of current employment agency career, number of cases in charge, number of regular employees, number of mental health specialists, and frequency of participating in academic circles or associations, and duration of applicable agency establishment as the individual variable factors among the factors of mental health specialists influencing upon organizational effectiveness. The same study selects statistics on professional environment, relationship to job performance, and individual operational orientation as the variable empowerment factors, and selects the specialist development, education and training, evaluation of outcome, compensation, and career development as the variable human resource management factors.
Contents of study as selected in this study are as follows:
1. Look into the degree of empowerment of mental health specialists, human resource management and organizational effectiveness.
2. Look into influence of empowerment of the mental health specialists upon organizational effectiveness.
3. Look into influence of human resource management of the mental health specialists upon organizational effectiveness.
4. Look into variable factors exerting relatively great influence on organizational effectiveness of the mental health specialists
5. Working out of alternative ways of enabling the empowerment and human resource management of the mental health specialists, based on the outcome of above study.
This study featured an exclusive study targeting the mental health specialists with the government pay grade II or above working at the Community Mental Health Centers across the country as the mother study group, with the data collection conducted in the form of survey research through mail posting and self-entry style input for four weeks from 16 April until 11 May 2007. A total of 236 copies were mailed from the total 53 places, and were all used as the final analysis data for analysis featuring verification of reliability, technical statistics, analysis of inter-relationship, and regression analysis.
Outcome of this study is as follows:
1. General Characteristics of Research Target Individuals. By way of the population's sociological characteristics, the study target individuals were females by sex, with many aged in their twenties and leading most of them being college graduates and having the religion of christianity. Many were unmarried. Characteristics of professional experience on part of the study targets featured that many of them had the mental health qualification certificate as mental health social welfare general personnel, with many with the duration of career for 36 months or less. Many of them were working within 24 months at their present employment agency, and charged with less than the average 58 cases in charge. By way of characteristics of the agencies to which they belong, many of them had six to ten regular workers and five mental health specialists. And the leading frequency of their attendance at the council or academic institute training was twice, and the duration between 73 to 108 months was found leading as the period of agency establishment.
2. The Community Mental Health Center operational performance related average points show the highest value of 4.0712 points as the empowerment variables. The average points of specialist development as the empowerment variables show the highest 3.5568 points, and the average points of the intention of leaving job as the variables of organizational effectiveness show as low as 2.9568 points, and the average points of professional satisfaction marks 3.6049 points, while the average points of organizational absorption show 3.5089 points.
3. Differences in the variables were analyzed on the basis of sex, religion, frequency of attending the academic circles or association training and number of cases in charge, and the differences were found statistically insignificant. There are significant differences, depending on other general characteristics and differences in various variables.
4. A look into inter-relationship showing one-to-one reaction in terms of operational effectiveness between empowerment variables and human resource management variables shows invariably significant inter-relationship, except for the job performance relationship and intention of leaving jobs, performance evaluation, and relations surrounding job satisfaction.
5. A comprehensive look into the variables influencing organizational effectiveness indicates that organizational effectiveness is influenced by empowerment and human resource management. Empowerment may be said influenced by occupational satisfaction, organizational absorption, and intention of leaving job, depending on the operational control environment, relations surrounding job performance, and individual job intention. Human resource management may be said influenced by the occupational satisfaction, organizational absorption, and intention of leaving job, depending on compensation. The population sociological characteristics may be said influenced by religion, with applicable agency's general characteristics influenced by the length of years of its establishment and occupational experience influenced by the current employment agency career.
Based on such study, following propositions are made:
First, the occupational characteristics should be managed to be had. Accordingly to the outcome of study, although the average points concerning occupational satisfaction came high, but not high enough. So, for the purpose of improving organizational effectiveness on part of the mental health specialists, such diverse ways as preparation of clear job description, job rotation for experience of diverse jobs, and operational supervision should be worked out in order to establish the recognition of one's important influential potentials in his organization, in the perception of necessity for his diverse occupational techniques and competence.
Second, objective evaluation of job is required. According to the outcome of study, job performance evaluation and occupational satisfaction were not found influential. The occupational evaluation or job performance evaluation of the mental health specialists should be presented with objective indicators so that it may be able to have affirmative recognition of job.
Third, methods of satisfying the desire for growth of the mental health specialists are required. Concerning the job performance of the mental health specialists, they should be developed to be able to act and select on the basis of their judgment through diverse modes of education/training and research focused on the maximum demonstration of their capability
Fourth, the organizational heads should display their reformist leadership and materialize adequate compensation system to assure acceptance of organizational values and sense of integration. According to the outcome of study, compensation is influential. It is necessary for the organizational heads to plant the sense of confidence and mission onto the mental health specialists, present vision to them, and provide them with fair and adequate compensation system. Empowerment of the mental health specialists may be formed through organization-related important decision-making and sharing of information, and organizational effectiveness may be improved through human resource management.
Fifth, unanimity of objectives on part of the organization and its employees will be required. Strategic human resource management meshed with the organizational objectives and environment should be formed, and the employee's empowerment formed well and the organization and employees should make up for each other so that the objectives of organization and employees may be agreeable and that organizational effectiveness may be improved and developed.
Sixth, it is necessary to correctly find out the individual traits, advantages and disadvantages of the mental health specialists so that the employees may not harbor the intention of voluntarily leaving their organization, and carry on the manuals, conferences and training activities so that the areas of their interest and ability may be probed. According to the outcome of study, the intention of leaving the job was not found significant. Therefore, the individual traits and operational characteristics on part of the mental health specialists should be well kept abreast on and presented in order to provide the favorable conditions and circumstances for them to able to continue to work for their organization.
Seventh, continued interactions between the organization and its employees through feedbacks concerning job evaluation and adequacy of job disposition will be necessary. According to the outcome of study, the relations surrounding job performance and intention of leaving job were not found influential. The mental health specialists should be made to commonly share the job evaluation and disposition so that their ideas concerning job performance may be accepted adequate and affirmative.