Personal Characteristics and Organizational Culture Affecting the Happiness at Work of Health Personnel at Sub-district Health Promoting Hospitals in Khon Kaen Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive research aimed to study personal characteristics and organizational culture affecting the happiness at work of health personnel at sub-district health promoting hospitals in Khon Kaen province, Thailand. A set of 151 health personnel was randomly selected by stratified random sampling technique from 2,353 of populations. Quantitative data was collected by questionnaire, that was examined and verified by the three experts for content validity. For items objective congruence (IOC), all items were greater than 0.50, and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for reliability was 0.96. Qualitative data was collected by using in-depth interview guidelines with 12 key informants. Data was collected between 20^th January and 20^th February, 2023. Data analysis was performed by using descriptive and inferential statistics with at a significance level of 0.05.

The results showed that the overall level of organizational culture and the happiness at work of health personnel were at a high level with averages of 4.12 (S.D.=0.54) and 4.22 (S.D.=0.42), respectively. Age and overall of organizational culture had a low and high relationship with the happiness at work of health personnel (r=0.226, p-value=0.005 and 0.815, p-value<0.001), respectively. Additionally, the results found that the three variables of organizational culture including; the co-ordination of organization, the criteria of success and the dominant of organization, which affected and could jointly predicted the happiness at work of health personnel at sub-district health promoting hospitals in Khon Kaen province at 67.5 percentage (R²=0.675,
p-value<0.001).