Recent years have witnessed ever-increasing focus on the effective management of people that represent special significance to their organisations’ success, and perhaps this has been one of the most important developments in human resource management (HRM). Specifically, talent management (TM) has been the focus and centre of attention of both HRM scholars and practitioners since it entered the managerial lexicon in the 1990s. From the work of the McKinsey consultants, the field of TM has gain much respect and attention across corporate f...

Over the last few decades, domestic violence against women has received increasing attention as an insidious problem for women both on the global and national scale. Despite this attention, studies on domestic violence are still limited in Bangladesh, as such, many issues remain under-researched, unexplored, or underexplored. Moreover, studying domestic violence through the qualitative approach is also hardly visible. With this backdrop, the present study aimed at filling in some of the methodological and theoretical gaps in the existing ...

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...

Organic agriculture in Thailand officially became a public policy in 2005 and its current provisions are described in the Second National Strategic Plan for Organic Agriculture Development (2013-2016). While organic agriculture has been implemented for a decade and while the global growth rate of organic agriculture has increased; the amount of land dedicated to organic agriculture in Thailand has increased at a rate of only 0.1% annually and comprises only 0.2% of the total land in the nation under cultivation. This is in sharp contrast ...

The World Bank, which produces the Logistics Performance Index, has consistently ranked Thailand in the top tier but in a degrading order: ranked 31 in 2007; 35 in 2010; and 38 in 2012. When looked at the micro level, Thailand is still in the lowest level of logistics development—physical distribution—where firms focus mainly on the outbound flow of finished products, from the end of the production line to the consumers. The Thai government has taken an integrative approach to logistics development, encouraging Thai companies, particularl...

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.

E-Government, defined by author as a new way of organizing the governance of society, which implies openness and transparency, and effectiveness and competency in developing and providing governmental services for all entities of society, where “e” refers to ICT as a means of supporting this effort. Despite being identified as one of the top priorities of the Ukrainian government, the implementation and adoption of e-Government services in Ukraine are facing numerous challenges and barriers, which need to be known, considered, and treated...

This study was conducted to achieve the objectives of identifying the socioeconomic factors that influence career choice, analyzing the organizational factors inhibiting professionals’ career and life, and analyzing the coping strategies utilized by the professionals in encountering those barriers.

As a means to economic growth and development, banking is one of the most heavily regulated industries due to externalities from banking failures. Banking regulation aims to maintain safety and soundness in order to protect depositors' losses, which may result from insolvency and/or illiquidity. Banking crises have induced policy makers to place emphasis on protective regulatory policy. Therefore, banking policy focuses on the regulation of capital, which is a centerpiece of the government intervention because it can affect risk-taking by bank...

This study covers new ground in the evaluative criteria for good governance by local governments. Commonly, such evaluative criteria would be set by the central state. It is a true top-down process. The evaluative criteria, on the other hand, from a bottom-up approach, that is, from the viewpoint of local governments, are rarely found. Therefore, this study will discuss on the evaluative criteria for the good governance of local governments according to the viewpoint of local government executives. Such criteria will center on six princip...

The main objective of this study is, firstly, to empirically test the proposed model in order to ascertain the nature of any causal relationship between the exogenous variables of transformational leadership (TFL) and the job characteristic (JC), with psychological empowerment (PE) as the mediating variable, upon the endogenous variable which is job involvement. The secondary objective of this study is then to demonstrate how, and to what extent, the concept of job involvement can be statistically explained by these parameters. Bass and Av...

หัวใจสำคัญของการกระจายอำนาจคือ การสร้างประชาธิปไตยท้องถิ่น การบรรลุจุดมุ่งหมายของแนวคิดการกระจายอำนาจคือ การเปลี่ยนจากราษฎรเป็นพลเมือง หรือประชาชนผู้คอยแต่รับบริการจากภาครัฐมาเป็ นผู้ขับเคลื่อนกระบวนการเอง การศึกษาวิจัยนี้จึงมีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อทาการศึกษาสภาพการแสดงออกถึงความเป็นพลเมืองของประชาชนในองค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่นระหว่างองค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่นที่ได้รับรางวัลเกี่ยวกับการมีส่วนร่วมและองค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่นทั่วไป และศึกษาอิทธิพลของปัจจัยที่เกื้อหนุนหรือเป็นอุปสรรคต่อการแสดงออกความเป็นพลเมือง การศึกษาครั้งนี้เป็ นการวิจัยเชิงผสมระหว่างกา...

หัวใจสำคัญของการกระจายอำนาจคือ การสร้างประชาธิปไตยท้องถิ่น การบรรลุจุดมุ่งหมายของแนวคิดการกระจายอำนาจคือ การเปลี่ยนจากราษฎรเป็นพลเมือง หรือประชาชนผู้คอยแต่รับบริการจากภาครัฐมาเป็ นผู้ขับเคลื่อนกระบวนการเอง การศึกษาวิจัยนี้จึงมีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อทาการศึกษาสภาพการแสดงออกถึงความเป็นพลเมืองของประชาชนในองค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่นระหว่างองค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่นที่ได้รับรางวัลเกี่ยวกับการมีส่วนร่วมและองค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่นทั่วไป และศึกษาอิทธิพลของปัจจัยที่เกื้อหนุนหรือเป็นอุปสรรคต่อการแสดงออกความเป็นพลเมือง การศึกษาครั้งนี้เป็ นการวิจัยเชิงผสมระหว่างกา...

This study aims to investigate the key determinants of the quality of education of upper-secondary schools in Thailand focusing on the Bangkok Metropolitan area. Among the 219 the upper-secondary schools located in the studied territory, 149 schools under the supervision of the Office of the Basic Education Commission, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, the Office of the Higher Education Commission, and the Office of the Private Education Commission were randomly selected. This sample size provided a 95 percent confidence level for all statis...

The increasing number of social enterprises and number of charities becoming social enterprises is heartening in terms of the potential impact that we will see in the future on our society and the environment. Social enterprises might be recognized as a new phenomenon in Thailand, but actually there are many frustrations regarding their performance. The objectives of this study, then, were to investigate the role of social entrepreneurship and the social capital of the social enterprise in terms of resources and performance, to examine th...

The objectives of the research were 1) to develop a model of knowledge management practices and organizational performance, 2) to validate the relationship of knowledge management practices and organizational performance in the model, and 3) to suggest for the improvement of knowledge management practices and organizational performance. This study investigated one independent variable (knowledge management practices), one intervening variable (innovation) and one dependent variable (organizational performance). Both quantitative research...

The purpose of this research was 1) to study innovativeness levels and organizational performance levels of medium sized industrial businesses, 2) to study the relationship of market orientation and learning orientation and their effectiveness on innovativeness and the organizational performance of medium sized industrial businesses, 3) to develop and examine the goodness of fit of a causal model of market orientation and learning orientation effecting innovativeness and organizational performance of medium-sized industrial businesses to the em...

This dissertation aimed to 1) analyze the environment of Thailand’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) promotion policy in the past and the present SMEs promotion plans in order to learn about its environment, 2) evaluate the outcomes of the SMEs promotion policy in the past and the present Thai SMEs promotion plans in order to know the policy outcomes and its relationship with the key stakeholders’ roles in the public and the private sectors, 3) analyze and evaluate the potential of Thai SMEs in competing in the ASEAN Economic Community...

The objectives of this study were: 1) To investigate the impact of decentralization policy on municipal governments’ budget allocation for education; and 2) To investigate the impact of decentralization policy on the quality of education provided by municipal governments. The methodology for this study can be divided into 2 parts. Firstly, the study of municipal government budget allocation for education was conducted using secondary data from the previous local government budget law passed between 2007and 2013, and results of the first (...

There are three objectives of this research “Sustainable Management Model for Self-Reliant Community: A Case Study of the Ethnic Chong Klongplu, Khao Khitchakut District, Chanthaburi Province.” These objectives are: 1) to study the situation in the community, way of life, and the adaptation of the ethnic Chong, Klongplu, Khao Khitchakut district, Chanthaburi, 2) to examine the community management and the state of problems following community-based approaches of the self-reliant ethnic Chong, Klongplu, Khao Khitchakut district, Chanthabur...