Job Attributes Affecting Work Selection with Thai Commercial Banks and Specialized Financial Institutions
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This research aims to study job attributes affecting undergraduate students in Chiang Mai towards working with Thai commercial banks and specialized financial institutions, using 11 job attributes as a research framework. Data was collected using questionnaires distributed to fourth-year students, majoring in business administration, accounting and economics, from 3 university groups in Chiang Mai, which were public university, autonomous university, and private university. A sample of 150 was drawn from each group, accounted for a total of 450.
The results indicate that most respondents are female, between 22-23 years old, majoring in business administration, and their GPAs range between 2.50-2.99.
They intend to work in Chiang Mai and are more likely to work for Thai commercial banks. Factor analysis reveal 11 job attributes with factor loadings vary between 0.592-0.856 for students’ perception towards working with commercial banks and between 0.638-0.807 for their perceptions towards working with specialized financial institutions. In addition, students’ perceptions towards working with Thai commercial banks and specialized financial institutions are not different, at 95% confident interval, in 3 job attributes, namely, pay, fringe benefits, and social responsibility. However, their perceptions of the other 8 job attributes towards working with those two groups are similar at 95% confident interval. The students also identify other job attributes affecting work selection, which are bank location with closeness to home and convenience commuting to work.
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