Browsing by Subject "Organization development interventions"
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    Enhancing supportive leadership, affective organizational commitment, and work engagement: a participatory action research approach
    (Bangkok : Assumption University Press, 2021) Tin, Thida ; Papitchaya Wisankosol
    This participatory action research aims to enhance work engagement and affective commitment by designing and delivering the necessary organizational development interventions (ODIs) at the focal company, the Gold Power Company Limited (GPCL). The researcher employed action research method to answer three objectives, comprising 1) Diagnosing the current situations of supportive leadership, affective organizational commitment, and work engagement at Gold Power Company, 2) Designing and experimenting with the ODIs of supportive leadership, affective organizational commitment, and work engagement, and 3) Measuring the effects of ODIs on supportive leadership, affective organizational commitment, and work engagement. The research site is at Gold Power Company, Myanmar, involving the managers (n=50) who are full-time employees. This study employs quantitative survey research method with the use of structured questionnaire with 5-point Likert scale as research instruments, where the instruments are validated and tested with Cronbach Alpha Co-Efficient. The results indicate that the ODIs have improved supportive leadership (P=0.000), Affective organizational commitment (P=0.000), and work engagement (P=0.000). The recommendations include 1) providing more leadership training to enhance supportive leadership and people-oriented leadership behaviors, 2) encouraging middle managers to use more of supportive leadership behaviors, 3) suggesting HR department at GPCL to inspect affective organizational commitment and work engagement level routinely, and to include leader’s supportive behaviors as KPIs in performance appraisal.
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    Enhancing teaching effectiveness to foster student academic motivation and student engagement in the EFL classroom through organization development interventions: an action research of Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages in China
    ( 2020) Feng, Xiaolong ; Kim, Seongdok
    The issue of student engagement is crucial in that it is not only conductive to students’ academic development, but also influences their everyday experiences, both socially and physiologically. So far, there is a dearth of empirical research on implementing ODI to effectively foster student engagement in Chinese EFL classroom. Thus, a systematic inquiry through action research is considered necessary and imperative. This current research focused on enhancing teaching effectiveness to foster student academic motivation and engagement in the EFL classroom by implementing ODI. The sample was 82 freshmen from two parallel classes. The experimental group was exposed to organization development interventions, including appreciative inquiry, goal setting, team building, differentiated instruction, whereas the comparison group received no intervention. Mixed research methods were adopted to collect and analyze the data. The paired-samples t test showed that there was statistically significant difference in student academic motivation and engagement for the experimental group between pre-ODI and post-ODI while there was no statistically significant difference for the control group. The Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient showed that there was a very strong positive relationship between academic motivation and student engagement. The qualitative analysis of students’ reflection reports and classroom observation feedback by three instructors justified how the ODIs employed in this research enhanced student academic motivation and student engagement. Based on the findings, critical recommendations for further research were discussed.
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    To enhance non-English major students’ English communicative competence by improving students’ English learner autonomy through organization development interventions—an action research at Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages (ZYUFL) in China
    ( 2020) Li, Ling ; Kim, Seongdok
    The research paper analyzed the impact of organization development interventions (ODIs) on learner autonomy (LA) and communicative competence (CC) of non-English major students in ZYUFL, Zhejiang, China. The main objectives were to determine the differences of students’ learner autonomy and communicative competence between the pre- and post-ODI phases and to investigate the impact of students’ learner autonomy on communicative competence after ODIs. Based on the preliminary diagnosis and pre-ODI results, the researcher conducted purposeful ODIs (three action learning cycles including coaching, goal setting, team building, dialogue and Appreciative Inquiry), but remained the same in the control group. The post-ODI results showed significant improvement on learner autonomy and communicative competence in the experimental group, but stayed almost in the same level in the control group. According to the results of paired sample t-test, there were significant differences between pre- and post-ODI results in learner autonomy and communicative competence. Based on the Simple Linear Regression results, learner autonomy had a positive significant impact on communicative competence. The analysis of the qualitative date (three learning journals, one reflective statement and two post-ODI meetings) triangulated the results. Further researches in the related fields were recommended in the last section.
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    Transformational leadership, workplace spirituality and organizational performance in a restaurant group in Indonesia: a study of the effectiveness of organization development interventions
    (Bangkok : Assumption University, 2020) Widjaja, Deborah Christine ; Chavez, Gloria S. ; Tayko, Perla Rizalina M. ; Sirichai Preudhikulpradab
    This study investigated the effectiveness of organization development interventions on transformational leadership, workplace spirituality and organizational performance at a restaurant group in Indonesia. The study followed an action research design, following the three stages, namely pre-ODI, ODI and post-ODI. Data were analyzed using a mix of quantitative and qualitative data analysis. The organization development interventions were directed at the participating leaders, who ranged from the top to the lower levels of the organization, by means of combining both training and coaching sessions. The results of the study showed that all the observed variables improved significantly except for job performance.