Learning Organization, Organizational Climate, Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Knowledge Sharing of Subunits within Technical Department Thai Airways Public Company Limited

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Rungradit Kongyoungyune

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The main purpose of this paper was to investigate the relationships and the influences among Learning Organization, Organizational Climate, Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Knowledge Sharing of all departments and divisions within Technical Department Thai Airways Public Company Limited.
The population of this study covered all Technical Department consisting of 73 departments and 103 divisions. The respondents consisted of 707 persons from 176 units. The survey research had been used in this study. The research results indicated that there were the statistical significant positive relationships for
every pair of variables. In addition, Learning Organization, Organizational Climate and Organizational Citizenship Behavior had the statistical significant positive total effects on Knowledge Sharing. The square multiple correlation coefficient (R2) indicated that 77.00 % of the variance in Knowledge Sharing can be explained by the combination of Learning Organization, Organizational Climate and Organizational Citizenship Behavior.

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