Nowadays, the rapid change of market circumstance is requesting an organization to adjust itself in order not to fall behind such a market circumstance. Firms have mainly used methods to change their systems such as compensation and salary as a way t...
Nowadays, the rapid change of market circumstance is requesting an organization to adjust itself in order not to fall behind such a market circumstance. Firms have mainly used methods to change their systems such as compensation and salary as a way to enhance their performances, but because of its big cost, some firms which didn't have enough financial room couldn't adopt it.
It is reported that appreciative inquiry(AI) creates the effect of continuous growth of an organization by a virtuous cycle that makes both members and the stakeholders concentrate on the growth of an organization(Whitney, Cooperrider, Garrison, & Moore, 1999). That is, utilizing AI by developing an education program can create a future-oriented and continuous effect rather than a temporary and short-term effect. In addition, AI has been used in various fields including organization development and psychology counsel, but not used as a principle of the development of an education program.
Therefore, this research is intended to suggest a new developing method of education program and to verify the applicability of new utilization of AI, by developing a program based on AI.
In this research, emotional factors of an individual, a team and an organization are to be applied to the development of this program and the analysis of its effectiveness, which is because, in AI, the development of an personal psychological capital at the individual level, shared knowledge and emotional credibility at the team level, and the reinforcement of commitment and cohesiveness at the organization level play an important role for AI to induce a constant change(Cooperrider & Whitney, 2005). Therefore, this research was conducted for the purpose to analysis effectiveness that an education program based on AI influences on the emotional factors of the individual, team and organization level.
Based on AI, 12-step education program composed of 4 modules was developed by using 4D model as a basic frame of contents and the development principle of an education program.
Learners participated in this research were the employees in a firm, and according to the result of the research, firstly, after they participated in the education program, they were changed to be emotionally positive to their organization at the level of individual, team and organization.
Secondly, there were differences in the changes according to education level, working department, job, position, and service length. This means the effects of the program are different by individual feature, so it is considered that revises and complements to a program are needed according to its education target.
Thirdly, according to the results of the evaluation for the effectiveness of the program from the participants after the program was conducted, it was shown that most of them were satisfied with the program. It seems that this is because, compared to a general instructor-led education program, the program composed of diverse elements such as using various multi-media lecture materials, team activities, and practical training could arouse learners' interests.
According to the results of this research, the program made individual positive psychological capital, shared knowledge or credibility in a team, and commitment and cohesiveness in an organization change to a positive direction for an organization.
However, because the number of cases in this research was too small and the research was performed in a short period collective training program, there was some limitation in interpretation. Therefore, it is needed that future research should be conducted with a program having insightful contents by each purpose and subject and with enough cases.