Ethical Climate, Personnel Engagements and Job Satisfaction in The Nakhonsawan Diocesan Schools in Thailand.
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This research delved into the ethical climate, personnel engagement and job satisfaction levels of administrators, teachers and non-teaching staff in the schools owned and managed by the Diocese of Nakhonsawan. It aimed to produce an intervention program that will help increase if not sustain the above-mentioned variables. This study was administered to 694 respondents in eight (8) schools of the Diocese of Nakhonsawan. It used descriptive/correlational design to examine the relationship between and among administrators, teachers and non-teaching staff’s ethical climate, employee engagement and job satisfaction levels. The data were statistically analyzed using percentages, mean and SD, one-way ANOVA, and the Pearson Correlation Coefficient (r). The result shows that respondents across all schools exhibit high levels of ethical climate, job satisfaction and employee engagement; although there are significant difference on the result of respondents among domains, location and respondents. The respondents also uncovered concerns and problems related to the above-stated study variables. An intervention program was designed to address the concerns re ethical climate, job satisfaction and personnel engagement levels of the respondents with the hope to yield productive, engaged, satisfied and competent administrators, teachers and non-teaching staff.
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