Motivation Affecting Employee Engagement of the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture

Abstract

   The research on the motivation affecting employee engagement in the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture aims to: 1. study the employees’ motivation in working in the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture; 2. investigate the employee engagement in the organization; and 3) study the motivation affecting on the employee engagement in the organization. The samples were 212 employees working at the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture, recruited by stratified random sampling. The research instrument was a 45-item questionnaire with a reliability value of 0.94. The data were analyzed using percentages, mean, standard deviations, and multiple regression.   The results showed that: 1. overall, the employees’ motivation in working in the Office of the Permanent Secretary was at a high level. When considering each aspect ranking from the highest mean to the lowest, being recognized and respected gained the highest mean, followed by working achievement and working advancement, interpersonal aspect, working environment, salary, and benefits, respectively; 2. employee engagement in the organization, overall, was also at a high level. When considering each aspect ranking from the highest mean to the lowest, the willingness to put devotion and effort in working was at the highest mean, followed by having pride in the organization, being part of the organization, and having strong belief and acceptance of the goals and values of the organization, respectively; and 3. the motivation in working including being recognized and respected, working achievement and interpersonal issue, highly impacted the employee engagement (64.50 percentage) in the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture with the statistical significance at .05.