A Mindset Intervention in an Organizational Context
Master thesis
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2023Metadata
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Research demonstrates that mindset can be shaped through interventions, but there exist limitedstudies on how they impact in organizational work contexts. The objective of this master thesisis primarily to examine if a mindset intervention, that targets growth mindset and stress mindset,can change the mindset of employees and increase job satisfaction. Even though there is a largeamount of research that indicates effects of interventions on children and students in educationalenvironments, there has not yet been performed a synergic intervention on employees in contextto job satisfaction, as we know of.
In this pilot study we conducted an experiment, consisting of a synergistic mindsetsinterventionthat was subjected to employees in a consulting firm. The intervention, which is an onlinetraining module, consisted of two sessions with a 2-week break in between. 28 of the 44 whostarted the first session completed the likert scale survey and intervention, while 10 participantsstarted and completed the second session. All participants who completed the first survey wererandomized into either treatment or control condition. We investigated if the intervention hadany impact on the three outcome measures. (1) Level of growth mindset; (2) Level of stressmindset; (3) Level of job satisfaction. The aim was to examine if employees changed theirmindsets, and if a change could impact perceived job satisfaction.
Our results are analyzed by performing a regression with robust standard errors. The resultsyield positive treatment effects across all measures, with job satisfaction showing significantimprovements after treatment (N=10). We find that growth mindset increases by 33% (p>0,1),stress mindset by 20% (p>0,1), and job satisfaction increases significantly by 116% (p<0,1)when controlling for treatment.
This indicates that it could be possible to increase job satisfaction for employees through asynergetic mindset intervention. However, the sample size was not sufficient and thus was notrepresentative, meaning that the outcomes of this trial must be interpreted with caution.Nonetheless, our study indicates that intervention could be a valuable resource for organizationsto use, being both time efficient and cost-effective, however further research on the topic isnecessary in order to conclude.