Development of Environment to Increase Effectiveness for Elderly Workers in the Workplace

Abstract

This research was to study the development of the environment to increase work efficiency for elderly workers in the workplace in Bangkok and metropolitan area around Bangkok. The objective of the research focused on studying relationship and work environment of elderly workers in the workplace including the government employees, state enterprise employees, company workers, factory workers and those involved in other areas. The samples were obtained from Krejcie & Mogan. Tool for collecting data was questionnaires. The data were analyzed by the Statistical Analysis Software. The result of research showed that from the 116 elderly workers in the workplace, 69 percent of them were mostly female, 41.4 percent of them were between the ages of 61 and over. 67 percent of them graduated with a bachelor’s degree qualification, 44.8 percent worked as a company employee, and 37.9 percent had work experiences in the range of 31-40 years. The study found that the good health of the person was seen as an important factor to help promote the good performance of the elderly people. The suitable environment for increasing work efficiency must be a work environment that was safe for life and property of workers. There must also be prevention measure of accidents occurring from in any type of work as well as clean and hygienic working environment, no dust, no loud noise which resulted in good physical and mental health of the workers. In terms of increasing the efficiency of the organization and management, it was found that the welfare and benefits could help increase work efficiency. Having good welfare and benefits included a medical promotion extra money (bonuses) or providing scholarships for children together with development and promotion of learning for employees. Those mentioned above helped increase work efficiency of the elderly workers in the workplace.