CMMU Faculty Received Highly Commended Paper Award in Salzburg, Austria

On 4 to 5 June 2014, Asst Prof. Dr. Molraudee Saratun, a CMMU lecturer and Ajchara Jinapant, a lecturer from Naresuan University have received a Highly Commended Paper Award from their research report entitled “Employee Engagement at a Faculty of Medicine in Thailand” at the 9th Institute for Sustainable Leadership symposium in Salzburg, Austria. Ajchara was also a former Human Capital & Organisation Management (HO) program student, who received her master degree scholarship from CMMU. Asst Prof. Dr. Prattana Punnakitikashem from CMMU also contributed to this research project.

This is the first study to make distinctions among job, colleague and organization engagement. Findings show that job characteristics, reward and recognition, and leadership have predictive power on all three dimensions of engagement. Job characteristics have highest predictive power on employee’s job engagement and colleague engagement, while reward and recognition most strongly affects organization engagement. The peer support factor predicts only colleague engagement and organization engagement. Physical job resources are found to antecede job engagement.

Photos: Asst Prof. Dr. Molraudee and Ajchara receiving a Highly Commended Paper Award from Professor Gayle C. Avery, a world renowned sustainable leadership scholar.