Organizational culture and employee motivation in Thai public sector organization

Abstract

Employee motivation is a significant tool to drive human resources to reach expected outcome. Moreover, organizational culture is the significant instrument to encompass value, norm and behaviors among the employees in order to rule the member to align with organization’s direction. The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between organizational culture and employee motivation in Thai public sector. According to the Hierarchy culture type of Cameron and Quinn (2006) explained that this culture type has characteristic including standardize, control and stability. According to this statement, Thai public sector culture is perceived as hierarchical, strict and complex. With this organizational condition impact Thai public sector employees were perceived unfriendly, unproductive and low motivation. The studied found the significant motivational factors that are related to the research question. This research is conducted by using in-depth interview with seven public governers. The frameworks and questions were guided by the combination of literature review in the past studied. The data analysis can be concluded into three parts which are positive aspects, negative aspects, and ambivalent aspects.