ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF THE GENERATION Y MILITARY OFFICIALS, ARMED FORCE SECURITY CENTER, ROYAL THAI ARMED FORCES

Abstract

The objectives of research were 1) to study the level of the organizational commitment, 2) to compare the organizational commitment with their demographic factor, 3) to study the relationship between job characteristics factors and organizational commitment, 4) to study relationship between organizational climate factors and organizational commitment. The sample was 290 Generation Y military officials of Armed Force Security Center, Royal Thai Armed Force. Data were collected by questionnaires. The statistics in this research were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, One-Way ANOVA, LSD and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The statistical significance was set at .05. The finding shown that the organizational commitment of the generation Y military officials of Armed Force Security Center, Royal Thai Armed Force was medium. (mean = 3.62, S.D. = .53) The hypothesis testing revealed that the difference in gender, age, work period and salary defined different level of organizational commitment, while the difference in degree of education and ranks did not infer different level of organizational commitment. The job characteristics factors and organizational climate factors had moderate positive relationship with the organizational commitment.