The Relationship between Work Motivation and Organizational Commitment of Supporting Staff in Mahasarakham University

Abstract

The purposes of this research were. - 1) Examine the relationship between work
motivation and organizational commitment of supporting staff in Mahasarakham University and
2) Examine the effects of work motivation and organizational commitment of supporting staff in
Mahasarakham University. This study uses a questionnaire as an instrument for collecting the
data 248 Supporting staff at the University. The statistics used were mean, standard deviation,
multiple correlations, and multiple regressions analyses. The results of this study indicated that.
- 1) Work motivation in terms of achievement, recognition, the work itself, responsibility, and
advancement had a positive relationship with organizational commitment with the correlation
coeffcients as 0.575, 0.673, 0.693, 0.744, and 0.832. 2) Work motivation in terms of advancement,
responsibility, recognition, and work itself positively affects the organizational commitment and
is signifcant at the 0.05 level. The value of predictive power was 74.50% (R2 = 0.745) as shown
by predictive equation from raw scores Y^ = 0.173 + 0.528ADV + 0.262RES + 0.129REC +
0.132WOI and while the predictive equation in form of standard scores was Z^y = 0.529ADV +
0.200RES + 0.117REC + 0.111WOI