A POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL CORRELATION MODEL ON EMPLOYEE EFFECTIVENESS OF GEMS AND JEWELRY COMPANY EMPLOYEES IN ANYATHANI INDUSTRIAL ESTATE BANGKOK

Abstract

The objectives of this research is to 1) study the positive psychological capital level, performance satisfaction, employee engagement and employee effectiveness, 2) study employee engagement as the mediator between the positive psychology capital and the employee effectiveness, and 3) study employee engagement as the mediator between performance satisfaction and employee effectiveness of the employees of the gems and jewelry manufacturing companies in the industrial estate Anthani Industry Bangkok. The population and samples of this research are 175 employees of the gems and jewelry manufacturing companies in the industrial estate Anthani Industry Bangkok. The research tool was a questionnaire. The statistics used in this research consists of the frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation values. The structural equation model (SEM).

          As results, it was found that 1) employees of gem and jewelry manufacturing companies in the industrial estate Anthani Industry Bangkok have overall levels of positive psychological capital, performance satisfaction, employee engagement and employee effectiveness at a high level. The mean values were 4.29, 4.13, 4.25 and 4.22, and the standard deviations were 0.579, 0.637, 0.585 and 0.586, respectively; 2) employee engagement is the mediator between the positive psychology capital and the employee effectiveness with the lower bound coefficient of 0.226 and the upper bound of 0.490; and 3) employee engagement is mediator between performance satisfaction and employee effectiveness with the lower bound coefficient of 0.231 and the upper bound of 0.506. The results shown that the employee positive psychological capital results in the employee engagement. In the same manner, the performance satisfaction impacts employee engagement.