Work Expectations and Self-Development of New Generations in Non-governmental Organizations
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The new generation has been generally known as the main workforce in the economy and a significant force driving current work in social development. The purpose of this research was to study work expectation, work motivation and self-development of the new generation in NGOs. A qualitative research was conducted with new generation. Twelve key informants were recruited based on the basis of purposive sampling. The criteria of the selected key informants were being 35 years old or younger and having not over 10-year-experience in NGOs Thailand. To analyze the data, four steps of the content analysis were done; data organization, data display, data interpretation, and data validation. The research finding indicated (1) work motivation of the new generation includes: (1.1) intrinsic motivation for happiness and work-life balance which was not different from the new generation of other organizations; however, all young NGOs had prominent social ideological motivations and (1.2) extrinsic motivation in terms of salary, compensation and benefits, although these were not the main motivation, they may affect working with the organization in later stages. (2) work expectation that reflected the perspective on the development work as well as affected future plans in 3 ways: quit to create their own job, resign to work for another organization, and work in the original organization. (3) self-development that the new generation was interested in was knowledge and skills. This research proposes the key elements of administering NGOs and applies the concept of work expectations and values in NGO work.
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