Enhancing Organizational Loyalty for Teachers under Bangkok Metropolitan’s Administration Based on Buddhist Dharma

Abstract

This research was a research and development containing the following purposes; 1) to study the problem in building to organizational engagement of teachers in schools under Bangkok Metropolitan’s administration, 2) to develop a model for enhancing organizational engagement by using Buddhist teachings to the teacher affiliated with Bangkok Metropolitan’s administration. The results were found that 1) Supporting factors contributing to the problem organizational engagement of teachers were: the fairness in considering teacher’s compensation/salary, the lack of school administration system use in daily management. In the aspect of management/administration: working environment, having too much workload of teaching, In the aspect of relationship with supervisors: unclear assignments from upper levels, cordiality/friendliness with subordinates, in the aspect of organizational culture: dominance of mindset, awareness or acceptance of corporate culture, in the aspect of normative engagement: movement of senior teachers with high work experience to other functions. 2) Enhancing organizational engagement by using Buddhist teachings to the teacher under the administration of Bangkok Metropolitan, as a whole, was at high level. When considering each aspect from high to low rating, it was found that in the aspect of benefit, accuracy, appropriateness, and possibility are at high level respectively.