A Study of the effect of stress management training courses on the improvement of employee's stress management skill in a military industrial center

This research work is aimed at studying the effect of stress management training courses on the improvement of staff’s stress management skill in a military industrial center.
This is an experimental study with pretestposttest and a control group. The population includes all the specialists and managers of the center. From among them, a group of 132 individuals were selected through the availability sampling method. Then they were divided into experimental and control groups (each with 66 individuals). Next, both groups completed the Whetten and Cameron Questionnaire (1912). The experimental group received 6 ninetyminute sessions of training on stress management, but the control group did not receive any training. After administering the post-test, the collected data were analyzed through descriptive methods and ANCOVA test.
The results revealed that training programs did not have any significant effect on the stress management skill of the staff and, among the skill factors, only the elimination of stress-making factors was significantly affected by the training program.
Such factors as special features of the research context, especially the quasi-military environment and security considerations, the lack of scientific, professional and educational needs assessment on the staff and managers and not using modern on-the-job training technologies and models caused the offered training programs not to be sufficiently effective.