A new study published in the scientific journal Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychologyevaluated mindfulness practice – “awareness” technique – by those who work in extremely monotonous working conditions. The survey revealed that those who practiced the technique, considering it less boring, showed greater job satisfaction and were less likely to quit.
In practice, when testing the relationship between mindfulness and the way employees are bored with their work, the study’s authors proposed a negative hypothesis, namely that focusing entirely on the present reduces employee boredom. Also analyzed How will this affect attitudes positively? such as job satisfaction, intention to leave, and task performance.
The idea was to scientifically examine both the quality and quantity of performance (productivity). establish a causal relationship between awareness and task performance, it is something that is done in most companies only on the basis of subjective performance evaluations made by auditors.
How was the relationship between awareness and job satisfaction examined?
The sample included 174 workers at a Mexican company located on the US border whose job was to process discount coupons from US retailers. extremely repetitive, the task does not provide any additional incentives for good performance. Employee awareness was measured using an awareness scale of one to six points.
Four months later, the researchers collected data on the number of coupons processed and the amount of errors made. After tabulation, mindfulness was positively related to job satisfaction and negatively related to turnover intentions attributed to boredom suppression.
Despite everything, mindfulness practice considered a “double-edged sword” with regard to the performance of tasks: the effect was considered positive in terms of the quality of work, but negative in terms of quantity.
ARTICLE – Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology – DOI: 10.1111/JOOP.12370.
Source: Tec Mundo
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