Creating Employee Working Skills and Performance through Organizational Training: A Case Study of Tire Manufacturing Company in Pathum Thani Province

Orawee Sriboonlue, Umawasee Sriboonlue

Abstract


The research aimed at studying the effects of organizational training on creating employee working skills and employee performance in the tire manufacturing company located in Pathum Thani Province by using 400 employees as the samples of this research. The questionnaires were used for data collection with the purposive sampling method. Data analysis consisted of descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation and inferential statistics used was Structural Equation Model (SEM). The results showed that the majority of the respondents were male, aged between 21-30 years old and between 41 – 50 years old, had educational background lower than a Bachelor's degree, worked as operational staff, had 6 – 10 years of working experience, and earned between 25,001 - 35,000 Baht per month. The employees had opinions related to organizational training, working skills, and employee performance at high levels. The results from hypothesis testing revealed that organizational training had direct effects on working skills and employee performance with standardized coefficient as of 0.110 and 0.407, respectively. In addition, the employee working skills had a direct effect on employee performance with standardized coefficient as of 0.858 at the significance level as of 0.001.

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