Qualities and Happiness of Work Life of the Officials of Department of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce

Abstract

The purposes of this study were 1) to study level of qualities and happiness of work life of the officials of Department of foreign trade, Ministry of commerce, 2) to study level of happiness of work life of the officials of Department of foreign trade, Ministry of commerce, and 3) to study the relationship between qualities of work life and happiness of work life of the officials of Department of foreign trade, Ministry of commerce. Sampling comprised of 234 officials. Data was collected by questionnaires. Statistics used for data analysis were descriptive statistics using frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation, T-test, One-way ANOVA and Pearson's correlation coefficient. The statistical significance was determined at the 0.05 level. The findings of the study were: qualities and happiness of work life of the officials of Department of foreign trade, Ministry of commerce had high level. The hypothesis testing revealed as follows: 1) personal factors, sex, type of position, salary per month, years of work, affected the overall qualities of work life at the statistical level of significance, 2) the qualities of work life related to the happiness of work life at the statistical level of significance. The quality of working life related to the happiness of working in the relationship. In terms of love and commitment in the work high level and related to the success in the work and the aspect of being accepted moderate.