The Impact of Employee’s Skills and Shared Value Adjustment on Business Sustainability: A Case of Logistics Service Providers in Thailand

Atchira Tiwasing, Orawee Sriboonlue, Suraporn Onputtha

Abstract


Recently, there many companies seek the ways
to increase the business sustainability. One of this can
include employee development as company human capital
and company shared value. Accordingly, the objectives of
this research were to study about the adjustment of the
organization related to promotion of employees’ skill and
employees’ shared value linked to business sustainability
as well as provide related equation. The samples of this
study were 401 employees working in the logistics service
providers’ adjustment in Bangkok and metropolitan area,
Thailand. The questionnaire was used as research tool.
Data collection employed purposive and convenience
sampling techniques. Data analysis employed descriptive
statistics including frequency, percentage, mean, and
standard deviation, and inferential statistics including
multiple regression analysis. The result indicated that
adjusted employees’ skill and adjusted employees’ shared
value affected business sustainability of logistics service
providers in Thailand with adjusted R squared as of 0.614
and 0.570 and predictive power as of 61.4% and 57.0% at
the statistically significant level as of 0.005. The company
should focus on promoting the adjustment of employees’
skill and employees’ shared value in order to achieve
business sustainability.
Keywords – Green Supply Chain Management, Adoption,
Small-Medium Enterprises with High Growth Rate

 

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