The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the NLP-based self-growth program would be effective in enhancing the self-esteem of adult learners in industrial setting and to analyze whether there would be any difference in effect according to ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the NLP-based self-growth program would be effective in enhancing the self-esteem of adult learners in industrial setting and to analyze whether there would be any difference in effect according to the characteristics of an individual learner by developing such programs for the adult learners in a company and training them with such programs. The following research questions were selected in order to achieve the purpose of this study.
First, what would be the contents and methods of learning required for the self-growth program for the adult learners needs in a company and how could the NLP technique applied? Secondly, would the NLP-based self-growth program, which applied NLP, be more effective in enhancing the self-esteem than the self-growth program, which did not apply NLP? Thirdly, would there be any difference in the effect of the NLP-based self-growth program according to the characteristic variables of an individual learner(gender, age, education, and DiSC types)?
The researcher designed the NLP-based self-growth program through a review of the literatures in order to carry out such questions for the research, established the hypotheses and performed the experimental studies to verify the effects. The experiments were carried out by a division of experiment group, comparison group and control group, respectively by designing the pre- and post-control group in terms of the research methods. Regarding the experiments, the researcher performed 20 times of experiments for 12 weeks in total regarding 641 employees in 15 companies in our country. The independent t-test, Levene's test(F-test) and ANCOVA were adopted in the analysis of experimental results.
The research findings were as follows:
First, the NLP-based self-growth program was designed to have the processes of the self-growth performed in a circular manner by reflecting the needs of companies and the characteristics of adult learners.
Secondly, as a result of verifying the effects of the programs, both the NLP-based self-growth program and the self-growth program were effective. As a result of comparing the effects of the two programs, it was found out that the NLP-based self-growth program was more effective than the self-growth program.
Thirdly, it was found out that the characteristic variables of an individual(age, gender, education, and DiSC types) did not have any significant effect on the difference of pre- and post-self esteem.
The researcher in this study did not completely control the experimental venue, participants, and experimental arrangement since each company organized the training. A further research is necessary to examine how long the effect to enhance a self-esteem in the NLP-based self-growth program would last.