Sustaining employees’ psychological well-being on remote working in the educational field in Russian companies
Bazorova, Aleksandra (2020)
Bazorova, Aleksandra
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020120125302
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020120125302
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This thesis looked into the psychological well-being of teachers working online in Russian companies. It studied what needs they had and what factors affected negatively on their psychological well-being. It was important to create suggestions for implementing in Russian companies. The topic had been chosen because it is currently widely discussed among spheres: psychological well-being and remote work are on the rise. The perspective of the Russian region was taken because the author was well familiarised with the culture and the background. Moreover, the demand for the online education is high, as the education provided in schools is of poor quality, and the country is big in size; hence, people often prefer online tutors and schools.
The author conducted quantitative and qualitative research in the form of a survey. The questions gathered the information about teachers’ psychological well-being, using the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales, as well as other information about their satisfaction, motivation and factors that influenced the psychological well-being negatively. Furthermore, an interview was arranged with one of the respondents to gather more in-depth information. The analysis was presented in the form of colour coding with three groups: the red, the yellow, and the green. The red included the respondents who showed worrying results in the psychological well-being, yellow of moderate, and green of sufficient. The results found that communication, both with company and colleagues, environment and atmosphere within a company, sharing expertise, and keeping a healthy work-life balance played a major role in the psychological well-being of online teachers working for Russian companies.
The author suggested companies to provide clear, consistent, and short information in the form of videos, check that the managers are always polite with the teachers, organize video calls for the teachers to connect, set up the professional psychological help, provide rewards for knowledge and experience sharing and for developing the skills, review the teachers’ working hours, and to start a blog with positive and interesting information to encourage employees to take a break. The author expressed the opinion that these suggestions could be also used in other spheres and countries because many people who work from home face similar problems. Further researched on this topic should be conducted with the implemented changes and preferably a wider sample.
The author conducted quantitative and qualitative research in the form of a survey. The questions gathered the information about teachers’ psychological well-being, using the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales, as well as other information about their satisfaction, motivation and factors that influenced the psychological well-being negatively. Furthermore, an interview was arranged with one of the respondents to gather more in-depth information. The analysis was presented in the form of colour coding with three groups: the red, the yellow, and the green. The red included the respondents who showed worrying results in the psychological well-being, yellow of moderate, and green of sufficient. The results found that communication, both with company and colleagues, environment and atmosphere within a company, sharing expertise, and keeping a healthy work-life balance played a major role in the psychological well-being of online teachers working for Russian companies.
The author suggested companies to provide clear, consistent, and short information in the form of videos, check that the managers are always polite with the teachers, organize video calls for the teachers to connect, set up the professional psychological help, provide rewards for knowledge and experience sharing and for developing the skills, review the teachers’ working hours, and to start a blog with positive and interesting information to encourage employees to take a break. The author expressed the opinion that these suggestions could be also used in other spheres and countries because many people who work from home face similar problems. Further researched on this topic should be conducted with the implemented changes and preferably a wider sample.