The Effect of Employee’s Knowledge Learning, Knowledge Sharing and Working Skill on Employee Value in Anonymous Tire Manufacturing Company
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Abstract — This research is based on quantitative method with the objectives to 1) study about employee’s knowledge learning, knowledge sharing, working skill and employee values and 2) investigate the influence of employee’s knowledge learning, knowledge sharing and working skill on employee values in a tire manufacturing company located in Pathumthani province. Data was derived from 400 employees working a tire manufacturing company located in Pathumthani province. Sampling method included purposiveness and convenience. Statistics used in the data analysis included descriptive statistics covering frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis, and inferential statistics including structural modeling analysis.
The findings indicated that most of the respondents were male (91.5%), aged between 21-30 years old (30%) and between 41-50 years old (30%), graduated lower than bachelor's degree (72%), worked as general staff (82.5%), had working experience between 6-10 years (34.5%) and earned monthly income between 25,001 - 35,000 baht (34.5%). In addition, employee had opinion towards knowledge learning, knowledge sharing, working skill and employee values in high level. The hypothesis testing indicated that knowledge learning had an effect on knowledge sharing (β = 0.827) and working skill (β = 0.371), but did not have an effect on employee values. In addition, knowledge sharing had an effect on working skill (β = 0.340) and employee values (β = 0.379). Lastly, working skill had an effect on employee values (β = 0.674) at the statistically significant level as of 0.05.
Keywords – Knowledge Learning, Knowledge Sharing, Working Skill, Employee Value
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