ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT AFFECTING QUALITY OF WORK LIFE OF PERSONNEL IN SAMUT SAKHON PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION

Abstract

The purposes of this research aim to:1) examine quality of work life of personnel in Samut Sakhon Provincial Administrative Organization (PAO); 2) study the relationship between organizational culture and quality of work life of personnel in Samut Sakhon Provincial Administrative Organization (PAO); and 3) find out the relationship between working environment and quality of work life of personnel in Samut Sakhon Provincial Administrative Organization (PAO). A quantitative research consists of 357 people using Krejcie and Morgan formula. An instrument is a questionnaire for collect data and the statistics analysis include percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, F-test and using Multiple Hierarchy Regression Analysis. The findings indicate that:

1. personal data of respondents; the most of them were 160 males, age between 31-40 years of 131 people, educational level of bachelor degree of 185 people, income per month between 20,001-25,000 baht of 123 people, government official of 114 people, and duration of work between 5-10 years of 154 people, respectively.


2. comparison of organizational culture and working environment that divide by personal data find that overall is no different, except gender, educational level and income per month are different at statistically significance level of .05.


3. relationship of organizational culture and working environment affecting quality of work life in participatory culture (r =.943) and physical working environment (r =.733^**) are related to quality of work life of personnel. The predictive variables include organizational culture R²= 0.840, R²_Adjusted=0.830, Sr²=3.340, F=23.52, p<0.001 and and organizational working environment (R²= 0.807, R²_adjusted= 0.651, F=465.3, p< 0.001), respectively.