Employee Engagement in Public-Enterprise Electricity Agencies in Thailand
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Employee engagement, Public-EnterpriseAbstract
The objective of this research is 1) to study the level of engagement to the work of state enterprises in the electrical energy sector of Thailand 2) to compare the differences in the engagement to the work of the employees of the enterprises in the energy of Thailand consisting of the Electricity Generating Authority Metropolitan Electricity Authority and the Provincial Electricity Authority. 3) To study the factors that influence the engagement to the work of the state enterprise employees in the field of electrical energy in Thailand. By using quantitative research. The research sample was 398 employees of 3 Thai enterprises in electrical energy. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire used to examine the quality of the equipment by measuring reliability by testing the Cronbach's coefficient and Accuracy was measured by means of component analysis. The statistics used for general data analysis are frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and hypothesis testing by ANOVA and Multiple Regression. The result of the research shows that the overall engagement to the work of state electric power enterprise employees in Thailand is at a high level. When considered in each aspect, found that the engagement for the benefit of the organization has the highest average score. Followed by maintaining the membership of the organization When comparing the differences in engagement to work, it is found that the employees of all 3 departments are engaged to different tasks with statistical significance at the level of 0.05. The employees of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand are more engaged to the work of the Provincial Electricity Authority and the Metropolitan Electricity Authority. From this study, the factors that influence the engagement to the work of the 3 state enterprise employees. And found that the quality of work life factors and change leadership factors Influence the engagement to the work of employees Regarding the attitude towards work, there is no influence on the engagement of the state enterprise employees in the electrical energy industry of Thailand. With statistical significance at the level of 0.05
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