The Relationship between Happiness in Working and Organizational Commitment of the Staffs: Case Study of the Head Office of Doikham Food Products Co., Ltd. (Ratchathewi)
Keywords:
Happiness in Working, Organizational Commitment, Food Industry, Human ResourcesAbstract
The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between happiness in working and organizational commitment of the staff, the head office of Doikham food products Co., Ltd. The sample of this study consisted of 105 personnel of the head office of Doikham food products Co., Ltd. The research instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire. The statistical procedures employed included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation. The research findings were as follows: The most of staff are female with age between 31–35 years old, Single in marital status, bachelor degree graduated, have income between 35,001 - 45,000 baht per month, have working experience between 4–6 years. The most of happiness in working is family facet and the least is income and welfare facet. The most of organizational commitment is affective facet and the least is normative facet. Finding the correlation between happiness in working and organizational commitment has the result at low and medium level. The most correlation is in medium level correlation between working conditions facet and affective facet. The least correlation in low level is a correlation between family facet and normative facet. And all facets in happiness working have correlation in low level with continuance facet.
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