Development of State Officials’ Values Toward Public Service of Samut Prakan City Municipality
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The objectives of this study were to study problems of state officials’ values toward public service of Samut Prakan City Municipality and to explore the development guidelines of state officials’ values toward public service of Samut Prakan City Municipality. The State Officials’ Value Concept consisting of 5 aspects namely Honesty, Morality, Democracy-based, Principle-oriented, and Discipline was applied as the conceptual framework of this study. This study was designed as quantitative research, using the questionnaire for field data collection from 397 samples residing in the areas of the Samut Prakan City Municipality. Descriptive Statistics exercised were percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The findings of this research revealed that the main problem of state officials’ values was the state officials had less value of honesty toward public service. Also, the Samut Prakan City Municipality had no concrete evaluation system. The main development guideline of state officials’ values was the state officials should have more value of honesty, dedication, and democracy-based toward public service. All of this should be accomplished by the concrete policy and action plan on state officials’ value development as well as the executives’ performance as the role model on state officials’ value toward public service.
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