The thesis aims at basing on theoretical and practical research on the career success needs of young officers of the Vietnam People''s Army, proposing psychosocial measures to contribute to improving demand. career success for them.
Trang 11. Overall introduction on the thesis
Needs for occupational achievement mean an issue interested for researches by both local and foreign psychologists “Young
officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army” is the doctorial psychological thesis firstly and independently
studied in Vietnam. Originating from requirements in the reality of military activities related to positivity of young officers’ ones; upon the summary of study works by local and foreign psychologists on needs for occupational achievement; in combination with exchanges and agreements with instructors & opinions by experts, the author selects and upholds relevancies to the study tendency of the thesis, thence, builds up plans, deploys researches, and better the thesis. The outcomes
of the study point out the definition of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army as well as determining young officers’ need structures for achievement, evaluating the actual state and proposing some sociopsychological measures to develop young officers’ needs for occupational achievement The outcomes bring about great meanings to the author himself and actively contribute to the development of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army.
2 Reasons to choose the topic
In the current stage, the state of ready to fight and win over the war with hitech weapons uses requires military officers in general and young ones in particular to constantly make efforts for development and better their virtues & military capacity to assure for the fulfillment of assigned tasks. One important factor to help military officers to brilliantly fulfill their tasks in difficulties and hardship means the need for achievement, the origin to promote positivity,
Trang 2The force of young officer is the key one to assure for continuous & firm transition from one generation of officers to another, meeting the requirement for building up the army At present, nevertheless, there remain quite a few young officers who are not aware
of military occupation or do not have desires to move forward for achievement in the army. For instance, they have not been properly or deeply aware of objectives of needs for military achievement as they mistake them as reaching high positions in the army or getting promoted
to right ranks or earlier, etc., while being little interested in accumulating knowledge and experience; this misleads to improper attitude towards the occupation such as: not having strived to learn or practised their levels or perfected their occupational skill; lacked patience when conducting their tasks, etc., thus, they have not performed their obligations and tasks effectively yet. Therefore, in order to build up the force of young officers with sufficient virtues and capacity to meet the requirements for tasks in the new age so that they will care about needs for occupational achievement
On the other hand, the study on various people’s needs for occupational achievement has been made abroad and in vietnam. However, research works have just been conducted with people in the civil field only. There are not any researches on officers or soldiers’ needs for their achievement in the armed force in general and in the army in particular and especially, there are not any works that deeply go
to learn about young officers’ needs for it in Vietnam People’s Army
Based on the abovementioned reasonings and reality, the author chooses the research thesis: “Young officers’ needs for
occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army”.
3. Objectives and tasks for researches
* Objectives for researches
Based on the reasonings and reality of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army, sociopsychological measures will be proposed to help enhance their needs for occupational achievement.
* Tasks for researches
Trang 3Reasonings on young officers’ needs for occupational achievement will be built up. The actual state of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement and influencers on them shall be surveyed and evaluated. Tests on those influencers will be made.
4. Subjects, objects, scopes of the research, and scientific hyppothesis
* Subjects for the research
Signals, levels, and influencers on young officers’ needs for occupational achievement
Scopes of objects: The thesis to research and survey officers,
young soldiers, and noncommissioned officers in such units as: fBB302 – Military zone 7, brigade 139 – Arm of Information and Communications, brigade 170/ Zone 1 Navy Service
Timeline: The thesis was commenced for researches in
November 2013 and last until November 2016
* Scientific hyppothesis
Young officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Arm highly develop, which shows consistency and close control in their three aspects: awareness, attitude, and behavior toward needs for occupational achievement. However, the awareness aspect is not as high as that of attitude and behavior. If it is possible to apply the advanced sociopsychological measure to enhance the awareness of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement, the need level shall be able to develop.
5. Research methodology
Trang 4The thesis is built upon Mark – Leninism & Ho Chi Minh ideology and methodology, and such psychological principles as: those on dialectical materialism and development of psychological phenomenon; consistency among psychology, awareness, and activities; and approach methods: activities – values – personality
* Specific research methods
Research methods in psychology in general and military psychology in particular are applied in the thesis, including: The group of related documents and papers research methods; the group
of practical research methods; the one of figure analyzing methods by applying mathematic statistics
6. New contributions by the thesis
To systemize theories on needs for occupational achievement toward local and foreign researches, build up the set of tool kit to serve for the thesis research, including: young officers’ needs for occupational achievement, needs for occupational achievement, show psychological structure of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement with three components: awareness, attitude, and behavior; influencers on the formation and development of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement
The outcomes of the survey show that young officers’ needs for occupational achievement stay high, which shows consistency in three aspects: awareness, attitude, and behavior The awareness level of NCTĐNN is lower than that in the two remaining aspects
There are not any differences with respects of needs for occupational achievement in those young officers with army ranks of officers or officer levels or scales; however, there are differences in terms of needs for occupational achievement among young officers at various titles.
There is the close and advantageous relationship between needs for occupational achievement and fulfillment of young officers’ responsibilities and duties. The fulfillment does not create any differences in needs for occupational achievement among
Trang 5 Young officers’ needs for occupational achievement are influenced by the two factor groups: subjective and objective ones. The outcomes from experimental tests show that: if educating to enhance young officers’ awareness of military occupational values, their needs for occupational achievement will develop
7. Meanings of the thesis’s theory and reality
* Meanings of the thesis’s theory
The thesis further supplements and enriches the psychological theory in young officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army, determines the need structure for young officers’ achievement & basic signals for the needs It also shows influencers on their needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army.
* The thesis’s practical meanings
To provide more scientific basis for the development of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement, making contributions to boosting up the quality of the force in Vietnam People’s Army. The thesis is a useful reference for researches on needs for occupational achievement in general and on education & management of young officers in the Army in particular
8. The thesis’s structure
In addition to the introduction part, an overview on researches, conclusions, and the list of references, there are three chapters as follows:
Chapter 1 Reasonings of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army
Chapter 2. Organization and research methods
Chapter 3. Outcomes of practical researches
OVERVIEW ON THESISRELATED RESEARCH SITUATION: YOUNG OFFICERS’ NEEDS FOR OCCUPATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT IN VIETNAM PEOPLE’S ARMY
Trang 61 Foreign research works on needs for occupational achievement
1.1. Some researches on natures, origins, and operation mechanism of needs for occupational achievement
There are many different perceptions on natures, origins, and operation mechanism of needs for occupational achievement. Let’s consider the needs for occupational achievement originate from the unconscious instinct, H.A Murray supposes the need for achievement
is potential and is formed from relationships while D.C. McClelland focuses on asserting the origins of it and J.W. Atkinson states the tendency toward achievement and avoidance away from failures. A.N. Leonchiep states the need for achievement originates from practical activities. M.Sh. MagomedEminov considers it as a process of activity control H Heckhausen firstly states and highlights the origin of awareness and values in the need for achievement. This is strengthened and developed by B. Weiner and C.S. Dweck.
by T.O. Gordeeva with four mobile blocks gains the most of
agreement. It should be inheritted and applied to the thesis.
1.3. Some researches on measuring methods of needs for occupational achievement
There are two tendencies of needs for occupational achievement: Using TAT or questionaires and the other testing method. Each method group shows its own good and pain points. To promote such good points and constrain such pain points in relevancy
to the thesis’s research tendency, we choose to use questionaires to measure young officers’ needs for occupational achievement
1.4. Some researches on the formation and development of needs for occupational achievement
Trang 7Some authors like: H Heckhausen, K.A AbulkhanovaClavskia, and L.M. Mitina, etc., care about building up, proposing formulas & programs to form and develop needs for occupational achievement in pupils and students. On the other hand, at present, the direction of researches and sharings on virtues, tips, and paths to achievement in achievementful people like keys to achievement to help the young generation and first jobbers remarkably develops. There are such typical authors as: Stephen R.Covey and David Niven, etc.,
2. Local research works related to young officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army
2.1 Theoretical researches on needs for occupational achievement
Local authors are interested in theories on needs in general and researching quite early, typically as such researches by authors like Pham Minh Hac, Le Duc Phuc, Le Khanh, Tran Trong Thuy, and Nguyen Thi Kim Quy, etc., Nevertheless, compared with other aspects
of needs, this remains rather low while theories on needs for occupational achievement are presented in researches by: Tran Anh Chau and Le Van Hao, etc.,
2.2 Practical researches on needs and motivations for achievement
2.3 Researches related to young officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army
There have had practical research works on young officers’ needs for occupational achievement, tendencies, motivations, positivity, and orientation for personality values among subject groups
Trang 8of authors and author groups of: Chu Thanh Phong, Lai Ngoc Hai, and Hoang Van Thanh, etc.,
3 Summary on research outcomes of announced scientific works and issues the thesis focuses to address
3.1 Summary on research outcomes of announced scientific works
Foreign psychologists have ever made researches on needs for occupational achievement by applying various approaches on different subjects. These researches offer us a comprehensive outlook
on needs for occupational achievement in psychology worldwide. Thence, they will help us compare with local corresponding ones and the research direction of the thesis.
There have some local theoretical and practical research works on needs for occupational achievement Particularly, there have had those on such issues related to young officers’ needs for occupational achievement like: occupational tendencies, and activeness, etc., Thence, we have compared them with foreign research tendencies in order to find out “room” for researches on needs for occupational achievement in the context of Vietnam’s psychology. Thence, we can assert the novelty of the thesis.
3.2. Issues that the thesis needs to focus on for settlement
Theories need clarifying in the thesis like: the approach that considers needs for occupational achievement as a psychological attribute and personality & inherits T.O. Gordeeva’s structural model of needs for occupational achievement. Furthermore, young officers’ need structure for achievement in Vietnam People’s Army shall be built up. Afterwards, actual states of levels and influencers on young officers’ needs for occupational achievement will be surveyed and evaluated, leading to proposals for some sociopsychological measures to enhance their needs for occupational achievement. The feasibility of sociopsychological measures shall be tested and verified to promote young officers’ needs for occupational achievement
in Vietnam People’s Army.
Chapter 1
Trang 9There are many different ways to classify needs, each of which bases on certain norms. Among those classifications of needs, however, the need for achievement merges up as a highlevel spiritual need The need for achievement boosts up and directs humans’ awareness, attitude, and behavior in activity reality. It is the origin of humans’ positivity in activities
1.1.2. Reasonings on the need for achievement
Definition of the need for achievement
The need for achievement is a spychological attribute and a personality presented in selfdemanding for subjects when operating in one certain field. They must achieve greatly meaningful values for themselves, families, and actively make contributions to the social development.
Some psychological features of those people with needs for occupational achievement
1.1.3 Reasonings on young officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army
Young officers’ occupation
Young officers’ occupation means a labor field with specific specialty feature assigned by the society in which young officers utilize their trained and selftrained labor force like values of tools and means
in order to create values that bring about happiness to themselves, families, which actively contribute to the Army’s development.
Young officers in Vietnam People’s Army
Young officers in Vietnam People’s Army are officers of the State of Socialist Republic of Vietnam who operate in the military
Trang 10field and younger than 32 at grades & military ranks from junior lieutenants to senior lieutenants and undertake key titles at the draft or equivalent grade.
1.2. Structures and signals of Young officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army
1.2.1. Structures and signals of Young officers’ needs for occupational achievement in Vietnam People’s Army
Structure of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement is constituted from three components: awareness; attitude (emotions), and behavior. During the time young officers perform their responsibilities and tasks, these three components do not exist separately but interrelate to one another and act in interactions to form
Creativity when performing
responsibilities and tasks Decisive roles
when addressing arising real situations
Importance of selfmanagement skills
Roles of overcoming difficulties and
hardship in the military occupation The
importance of building up good
relationships.
ATTITUDE
Be loyal with the Party’s military guidelines, the State’s military policies and laws Absolutely believing in the Party’s leadership, the Army’s strength, and capacity to brilliantly fulfill tasks of themselves and units Be aware of practicing their capacity for flexible thinking in military activities Actively practicing skills to independently fulfill tasks Getting proud when brilliantly fulfilling assigned tasks Believing in success when applying knowledge to military activities
ATTITUDES
Resilient actions for the Military State Regularly set up and develop relationships Always taking active thinking when performing responsibilities and tasks Regularly taking independent thinking while performing responsibilities and tasks Regularly practicing assigned skills, short and longterm objectives for all tasks Regularly making efforts to activate during performing tasks
BASIC SIGNALS OF YOUNG OFFICERS’
NEEDS FOR OCCUPATIONAL SUCCESS IN VIETNAM PEOPLE’S ARMY
Trang 11Chart 1.2. Basic signals in young officers’ needs for occupational
achievement in Vietnam People’s Army
Trang 12Researches by B Weiner, C. Dweck, and La Thi Thu Thuy match with purposes and the research subjects of the theis, in our opinions, there are two direct influencer groups on young officers’ needs for occupational achievement
1.3.1. The group of subjective factors
The group of subjective factors influence young officers’ needs for occupational achievement, including such basic factors as: Perception of young officers on achievement; desire for selfassertion; inspiration for the occupation; their spirit of responsibilities for the occupation; experience, and life experience; the level to grasp occupational & professional knowledge; the level of young officers’ understandings about requirements for actual military activities.
1.3.2. Objective factors
The objective factor group basically influences young officers’ needs for occupational achievement: family traditions; incentives offered
by the Party, State, and Army to young officers; the consistency in training, arranging, and utilizing young officers; efficiency of military occupational training and political selfpractice for them; positions that they undertake; influences by coworkers and friend groups; their working conditions and environment
Conclusions to chapter 1Based on the research process, different viewpoints on needs for occupational achievement and achievement toward the approach
of activities – values – personality will be selected and inherited. We have determined young officers’ need for achievement in Vietnam People’s Army. It is one psychological attribute and personality of young officers, which shows consistency in awareness, attitudes, and behavior in order to control the military occupational value system.
The structure of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement consists of three components: awareness, attitudes, and behavior In order to evaluate the actual state of young officers’ needs for occupational achievement, three manifestation aspects need approving with 18 interrelationships
Young officers’ needs for occupational achievement are influenced by many different factors. Within the thesis’s scope, we
Trang 13Chapter 2ORGANIZATION AND RESEARCH METHOD
2.1. Organization of researches
2.1.1. Research unit
The thesis shall be deployed for researches in 3 units: fBB302 – Military zone 7, brigade 139 – Arm of Information and Communications, brigade 170/ Zone 1 Navy Service
Based on the outcomes of the research, sociopsychological proposals will be made to contribute and enhance young officers’ needs for occupational achievement.
To test influences on measures to enhance young officers’ needs for occupational achievement.
2.1.4. Research phases
Phase 1: To make theoretical researches, initial surveys, and accomplish the detailed project. Phase 2: To survey the actual state, conduct influential tests, and write the thesis’s contents. Phase 3: To check investigative figures and continue supplementing the thesis’s contents. Phase 4: To accomplish the thesis
2.2. Research methods
In order to serve for the thesis research, we have utilized several different research methods like: researching documents, surveying by using questionaires, observation, indepth interviews, focus discussion groups, piloting expert methods, and processing figures by mathematical statistic through SPSS 20.0 software with