Workplace Spirituality, Mindfulness, Work Engagement and Core Competency of First-line Managers in a Telecommunications Business Group

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อภิตา สุขสาธุ
รัตติกรณ์ จงวิศาล

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This research is Quantitative Research that has three objectives: 1) study the level of workplace spirituality, mindfulness, work engagement and core competency of first-line managers in a telecommunications business group 2) to study relationship between workplace spirituality, mindfulness, work engagement and core competency of first-line managers in a telecommunications business group, and 3) study the effect of workplace spirituality, mindfulness, work engagement and core competency of first-line managers in a telecommunications business group. The sample of this research were 170 first-line managers in a telecommunications business group. Data were analyzed with a computer program. The statistical method used to analyze the obtained data were percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis. The results of the research show the following: 1) first-line managers in a telecommunications business group contained a average level of mindfulness was at very high level, work engagement and core competency was at high level and workplace spirituality was at medium level; 2) workplace spirituality and work engagement were positively related to core competency with statistical significance; and 3) workplace spirituality, mindfulness, work engagement could predict core competency of first-line managers can predict 74.6 percent with statistical significance.

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สุขสาธุ อ., & จงวิศาล ร. (2019). Workplace Spirituality, Mindfulness, Work Engagement and Core Competency of First-line Managers in a Telecommunications Business Group. Journal of HR Intelligence, 14(2), 66–83. Retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/hri/article/view/223610
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