It has been, historically, found that one of the most successful economic development concepts is the concept of welfare state where a government plays a big role in providing social benefits for its citizens through its various government intervention policies. This administrative concept has been widely adopted by many European countries with successes in Scandinavian countries, namely, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Attempts had been made by Thai government to adopt the welfare state concept to improve the well-beings of Thais. But ...

This study is to identify red flags on financial failure of Thai corporations, since the collapse of many business firms, especially the financial institutions and real estate firms in 1997. Red flags are indicators for possible cause for concerned specific areas that represent potential problems; here it is limited to financial failure. Using red flags as warning signals for financial failure will efficiently help the users of the financial statements in their decision making. In addition, the study includes prediction performance and experimental ...

The purpose of this research is: 1) to explain the relationships between talent management, job satisfaction, affective commitment, and the intention to leave among civil servants in HiPPS projects for the Thai public sector, 2) to develop a model of talent management affecting employees’ intention to leave an organization through job satisfaction and affective commitment, and 3) to develop policy recommendations for talent management in the Thai public sector. This research used a mixed method which includes quantitative and qualitative approaches. ...

Economic real sector is essential for growth and development as its activities persuade progress of economic output. The sector generates better outcomes if it is accompanied with a healthier financial system; thus, advancement of financial sector is a means for the growth of real sector. This study reexamine the relationship between financial and real sectors of Thailand with the volatility analysis of GDP caused by development of financial market. The GARCH Model, Johansen-Juselius (1990) co-integration test, and vector error correction model ...

OBJECTIVES: To develop a measurement model to assess the relationship between metabolic syndrome (MetS) progression and health behavior changes. METHODS: Medical records of checkup patients of a private hospital from 2006-2017. Data on exercise (EXE), smoking (SMK), and failure to control weight (FCW) were included as health behaviors. FCW was derived from waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI).  Blood pressure, high and low density lipoproteins (HDL, LDL), triglycerides (TG), and fasting blood sugar (FBS) were used for MetS diagnosis ...

It is widely believed that good leader leads an organization for success. Emotional intelligence is deemed as one of key components of a good leader. Leader with higher emotional intelligence level tends to outperform leader with lower emotional intelligence. Relationship between good leader with high emotional intelligence and firm or organization performance was documented to be positively correlated. However, result from this study exhibits that emotional intelligence and organizational performance have significantly negative correlation. ...

This research aimed at constructing and validating helping behavior of bystanders scale (HBBC) in junior high school students. Two important scales were constructed namely, 1) emotional support behavior of bystander scale (ESBBS), and 2) informational support behavior of bystander scale (ISBBS). The statistical approaches were exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis and validation. The samples in this study were grade 7th and 8th students in four junior high schools.  Using multistage quota random sampling, the total samples ...

Promoting the deep integration of information technology and education is the general direction problem to solve in the current education and teaching. Therefore, under the background of profound changes in the new form of education, a better mixed teaching organically combining online learning and offline face-to-face teaching has become a practical problem facing higher education in China today. As a model of the deep integration of information technology and learning theory, flipped classroom has become a hot spot in higher education reform ...

Developing the service industry remains the focus of China's economic work for a long time to come. At present, the nation is also taking a series of measures to vigorously promote the reform and development of the service industry. At the micro level, although the service enterprise regards "customer is God" for the purpose of the enterprise, the service failure is inevitable in the actual service operation. After the service failure, effective service remedy is the inevitable way for the enterprise to win back customers, and then recover and ...