Over 15 years of existence of Public Organization (PO), many questions and public issues have been raised over the performance, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of PO. This study therefore has a goal to understand and present the performance of PO, that have been established under the Public Organization Act of 1999. The main objectives of this study are: 1) to investigate the performance of Public Organizations in Thailand, 2) to explore the key factors affecting the performance of Public Organizations and 3) to provide recommendations, ...

The purpose of this study was to delve into the research questions: 1) Do women leaders help promote governance in the Union Parishad (UP) of Bangladesh? If so, how?; and 2) How have women leaders perceived and defined their roles and coped with the realities in the UP? The objectives were to: 1) unravel the leadership process of the women leaders in the UP; 2) uncover the perceptions, dynamics, realities, and challenges of participation of women leaders in the UP of Bangladesh; and 3) explore the coping strategies of women leaders in the ...

As we all know, the development of higher education in China started late High-level faculty is the key to improve the quality of talent cultivation, and it is also a strategic choice to improve the strength of universities. Whether teachers can be efficient, active, and full of enthusiasm in their work is related to the long-term development of colleges and universities in China. The research of the relationship between professional loyalty and turnover intention of university teachers as knowledge staff also provides some insights for the ...

This research studies the effects of University-Industry Interaction (UII) on innovation project performance from the perspective of university researchers. The main objectives are: 1) to identify the main factors of the researchers’ project performance that will benefit private firms, 2) to investigate the power of UniversityIndustry Interaction (UII) on project performance, and 3) to test the model of University-Industry Interaction (UII) and project performance as well as the relationship of all the factors in the model. The author distributed ...

Globalization, together with the reduction in trade barriers and development in information and communication technology, provide an opportunity for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to expand their business into foreign markets. SME internationalization has been widely researched in developed countries but little is known about how and why internationalization takes place in the developing countries and this lack of evidence in the literature provides strong grounds for this study.

This study applied a mixed research approach to investigate the extent to which metacognition training could develop students’ writing skills. The student participants were a group of third-year university students majoring in Business English, Faculty of Arts who enrolled in the Business Communication in English II course. They were grouped into experimental and control groups. For the experimental group, the metacognition training was conducted as an intervention in teaching business writing. The pretest and posttest writing scores of ...

Two topics are investigated in this dissertation. The first concerns variance estimation when a single primary sampling unit is selected. Two new bias variance estimators, based on splitting the initial sample into sub-samples and regarding the initial sample as a stratified sample, are proposed. The results of this study indicated that both new variance estimators are underestimated. The first variance estimator is not preferable when the number of sub-samples is two because its relative bias is too large to be useful. Increasing the number of ...

This study adopts regression-based decomposition proposed by Fields on Thailand Labor Force Surveys to investtigate the wage inequality in the manufacturing sector in Thailand during 1985-2005. The included variables are workers’ individual characteristics and their working status such as gender, marital status, family size, urbanization, education categories, experience, types of occupation, minimum wage zone, fringe benefit, domestic expenditure, and international trade. Ordinary regression states the significance of all explanatory variables ...

This research aimed to investigate wellbeing, livelihood strategies to pursue wellbeing and conditions effecting wellbeing achievement of single mothers in a slum community in Bangkok. This research was conducted following a qualitative research methodology. Data were collected mainly through in-depth interviews with 12 key informants, and 18 cases of single mothers. The case were divided into 2 groups, 9 each:  1) single mothers living with children and relatives; and 2) single mothers living only with children. Data analysis was done by means ...

NIDA has been providing its academic services for almost 5 decades to the development of the country as reflected in its shared value “WISDOM for Change” which presents NIDA’s intention to advance itself into international standard.NIDA is well equipped with capable and knowledgeable faculty members; high-standard IT facilities; academic freedom, friendly atmosphere, and constructive discussions.NIDA is strongly determined to produce precious and knowledgeable graduates by holding on to its shared value of WISDOM for Change the endless pursuit ...