Educational Development of Judishapur

Educational Development of Judishapur

Study on Need levels and Expectation of job among Students of Occupational Therapy in Tehran Universities

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Narges Ghamari 1
Seyed Ali Hosseini 2
Farzane Yazdani 3
Anvar Lotfi 4
Fateme Ghamari 5
Mahbobe Ghamari 6
1 PhD student in Occupational therapy, Occupational therapy Department, School of Rehabilitation, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
2 Faculty member, Social Determinants in Health Research Center and Occupational therapy Department, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
3 Master of Occupational therapy, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
4 Master of Occupational therapy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
5 Master of Industrial Management, Shiraz branch of Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.
6 Master of Hospital Management, Science and research branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Expectations of job is one of the major factors that determines the relationship between individuals and the organization. Motivation at work, responding to the employees’ needs of job, and also providing favorable career paths requires a review of the needs and expectations of individual identification of a job. Due to scarcity of related research, this study aimed to investigate the needs and expectations of the job among students studying occupational therapy. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 1393. The population included occupational therapy students of Universities in Tehran city. To examine the expectations and needs of occupational therapy students, the needs questionnaire designed by Gordon and expectation of the job questionnaire designed by Lussier were used. Afterwards, data were analyzed by using the SPSS software version 19th.: In this study, 107 individuals participated. The data remarked that the highest average rating in the Gordon-needs questionnaire was the need for security (4/61 ± 0/72), and the lowest score was mentioned social need (4/08 ± 0/62). In the Lussier questionnaire, the average rates of health factors was 27/76 ± 2/20, further the motivational factors was 26/14 ± 2/68.The results of this study showed that the health factors were prior than motivational factors from students’ opinion. They considered the importance of the dimensions of need respectively as follows; security need (maximum), the need to respect, the need for independence, need for self-actualization and social need (minimum).
Keywords
Need levels
Expectation of the job
Occupational therapy students
Occupational Therapy
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Educational Development of Judishapur
Volume 8, Issue 2
Summer 2017
Pages 198-205