Employee Empowerment Affects the Innovative Work Behavior of Staff in Singhanakorn Municipality, Songkhla Province
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https://doi.org/10.55164/ecbajournal.v17i2.273918Keywords:
Employee Empowerment, Work Behavior, Innovative Work Behavior, MunicipalityAbstract
This article aimed to study employee empowerment affects the innovative work behavior of staff in Singhanakorn Municipality, Songkhla Province. The research design was quantitative research. The sample was 127 staff in Singhanakorn Municipality, Songkhla Province, which selected through simple random sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire. Analysis data by percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson' s correlation coefficient and simple linear regression analysis.
The research results were found as follows; the correlation coefficient between employee empowerment and innovative work behavior of staff in Singhanakorn Municipality, Songkhla Province is positively and significantly related at the .05 level. Employee empowerment affected innovative work behavior of staff in Singhanakorn Municipality, Songkhla Province at a statistically significant level of .05. Employee empowerment significantly predicted innovative work behavior of staff in Singhanakorn Municipality, Songkhla Province at 58.1%, at the .05 significance level. Therefore, if staff receive employee empowerment, it will also lead to an increase in their innovative work behavior. The head of the official department should foster employee empowerment to strengthen the innovative work behavior of staff, thereby facilitating project implementation in the area.
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