Bagadaeva O.U. Employee Motivation as an Organizational Condition for Reducing the Occupational Stress of Preschool Teachers

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Keywords: kindergarten teacher occupational stress stress-resistance stressor motivation motivational potential competence

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Bagadaeva O.U. Employee Motivation as an Organizational Condition for Reducing the Occupational Stress of Preschool Teachers // Preschool Education Today. 2016, Issue 10 - p. 26–37.

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2016, 10

Olga U. Bagadaeva
Senior Lecturer, Chair “Psychology and Pedagogy of Preschool Education”, Teacher Training Institute of “Irkutsk State University” (Irkutsk, Russia)

Abstract

The article is based on data obtained from studies conducted from 2011 to 2016. This research is devoted to the enhancement of preschool teachers’ stress resistance. “Lack of moral and material stimulation of labor” is identified as the most significant stressor in the work of teacher in kindergarten and orphanage. The author examines stress in connection with the motivation of teachers and the peculiarities of competence development activities, civic consciousness and value-semantic orientation in the world. The author reveals the relationship of stress resistance level and teacher’s competence level. To reduce the impact of stressor named “lack of moral and material stimulation of labour” it is proposed to explore and promote the use of the motivational mechanisms that may be available to education managers in order to reduce the stressful pedagogical work at the expense of change in the corporate culture of the organization, the introduction of original methods of stimulation. The experience motivation study of teacher, evaluation of the motivational potential of the tasks and development of methods of motivation in the course of conducting scientific-methodical seminars and workshops with teachers of pre-school education are presented.