BUDDHIST INTEGRATION FOR PERSONNEL’S WORK PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF BANGKAPI DISTRICT OFFICE, BANGKOK METROPOLIS

Abstract

Objectives of this article were: 1. To study the level of operational efficiency of Bangkapi District Office personnel. 2. To study the relationship between Itthipada-dhamma and operational efficiency of Bangkapi District Office personnel. 3. To study of problems, obstacles, and recommendations for Buddhist integration for promoting the efficiency of work performance of Bangkapi District Office personnel, Bangkok Metropolis, conducted by the mixed research methods.  The quantitative research used questionnaires to collect data from 279 samples and analyzed the data by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation. and analyzed the relationship. The qualitative research, data were collected by in-depth interviewing 10 key informants and analyzed using content descriptive interpretation.

The results of the research were as follows: 1. Buddhist integration for promoting the efficiency of work performance of Bangkapi District Office personnel, Bangkok Metropolis was found that; Operations according to the principle of Itthipada-dharma, by overall, it was at a high level (= 4.38 S.D. = 0.63) 2. The principle of itthipada-dhamma was related to the efficiency of work performance of Bangkapi District Office personnel. Bangkok Metropolis with statistically significant positive level at 0.01. 3. Problems and obstacles of Buddhist Integration for enhancement of performance efficiency of Bangkapi District Office Personnel, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration was found that 1) personnel applied Dharma principles in their work, not in full details, causing the work to be performed sluggishly and not enthusiastically. 2) One employee was responsible for many tasks, lacked of knowledge and competence in the work they were responsible for causing delays and errors.