The main purpose of this study was to 1) examine the influence of human resource management practices on good governance in the Thai civil service 2) examine human resource management practices that relate to good governance in the Thai civil service, 3) understand the casual relationship that HRM practices have towards good governance in the Thai civil service and 4) understand the mediation role of ethics management and ethical culture that pass the relationship from HRM practices to good governance in the Thai civil service. The instrument for ...

This paper is concerned with the foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow and its determinant in ASEAN 5. The analysis is based on the data over the years 1986 to 2012 using the Vector Auto Regression (VAR) Technique. The objective was to analyze the relationship of (FDI) inflow and interest rates (IR). The findings suggest that the interest rates of Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia have a negative relation with foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow. No evidence was found that interest rates play any role in attracting the FDI inflow for Singapore ...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is one of the major topics of interest gaining attention of many researchers because an organization has to be responsible towards its act for the society and to fulfill its social obligations. Previous studies have mainly analyzed the impact of CSR from the perspective of external stakeholder, and lack studies conducted with the focus on employees, more specifically with regards to their perception towards CSR. The objectives of this research were to investigate the relationships between employee CSR ...

This qualitative multiple-case study investigated the roles of indirect asynchronous electronic feedback and direct feedback on lexical errors (calques and collocations) produced by Thai undergraduate students. The study consisted of two phases: 1) a pilot study and 2) the main study. Data collection was carried out through text analysis, interviews, and observations. The pilot study was conducted with university students who shared more or less the same characteristics as those in the main study. More specifically, six typical cases were divided ...

The research question of the present study was what were the roles of psychological capital in the job demands-resources model with challenge-hindrance demands framework in the context of Thai nurses? In order to answer the question, this study had to accomplish two objectives - to develop and psychometrically test the new challenge-hindrance demands scale and a job resources scale among Thai registered nurses in private hospitals and to examine the possible roles of PsyCap in the job demands-resources (JD-R) model.

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between servant leadership and employee service performance in public sectors and its internal mechanism. To be specific, the first step was to explore whether servant leadership can predict employee service performance. The second step is to explore the mediating mechanism by which servant leadership influences employee service performance. Based on social learning theory and relevant literature, this study developed the main effect model of servant leadership positively affecting ...

Focusing on agricultural business seems promising. Considering on environment and capability of most Thai farmers, smart Farm in Thailand should be household-based farming by using simple and economical feasible technology will generate income for households on sufficiency economy basis. The objectives of this study are to develop farming and knowledge dissemination about the smart farming by adopting the philosophy of the sufficiency economy in duck farm prototype. To develop technology need assessment of duck farm in alignment with the concept ...