Human resource management affecting the organizational commitment of municipal personnel in Loeng Nok Tha District, Yasothon Province

Abstract

These paper objectives were (1) to study the perception level of human resource management and organizational commitment of municipal personnel (2) to study the relationship between human resource management and the organization commitment and (3) to study the dimensions of human resource management that affect the engagement of municipal personnel. Samples were randomly obtained as 215 respondents from 9 municipal offices located in Loeng Nok Tha, Yasothon. The questionnaires and statistics used in the research were mean, standard deviation, pearson correlation, and Multiple Linear Regression. The statistic results revealed that (1) HR practices among government officer of Loeng Nok Tha Distict municipality was at high value. (2) the overall organizational commitment perceived by participant was at a high level (3) human resource management practices are moderately positively correlated with the organizational commitment and (4) HR practices have influenced positively one the Organizational Commitment at significance at 0.01, while the Performance Evaluation is the best prediction factor and followed by Safety and Health (also known as quality of work life and well-being). Policy recommendations are that Executives should formulate incentive programs with fairness as well as two-way communication should be encouraged, which not centralized policymaking. Apart from that providing municipal staff a variety of communication channels for them to suggest useful opinions and inspiration so that the information obtained can be useful in solving the problem.