The relationship between work interferes with family life and family interferes with work. Job satisfaction of the Labor-Intensive sectors employees in Bangkok and vicinity
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The challenge of managing the operational efficiency of a labor intensive business is an issue that business executives must face and find innovative ideas to manage. which leads to a competitive advantage in today's era.
The objective of this study was to investigate the influencing factors that affecting on worker’s job satisfaction of labor-intensive sector. This quantitative research used cross-sectional data and randomly selected by stratified random sampling method, 375 persons.
The instrument used in this research was a self-administration questionnaire, Sequential Multiple Regression as a testing statistic. Results: 364 completed questionnaires were returned, representing 97.06%. Marital status, workload and work interfering with family life could jointly to explain the variability of job satisfaction by 13.6 percent.
The results of the study will help to understand the context of labour intensive organization and to formulate a more appropriate work interfering with family life policy. The implications for work interfering with family life and for enhanced responsibilities of organizations are discussed.
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