THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES AND WORK EFFICIENCY OF AGED GOVERNMENTAL OFFICERS

Thailand has entered aging society and many organizations, both public and private started to pay more attention to older employees. Aged employees played more important roles in organizations today as they can be the main human resources of organizations that are full of skills and experiences. The paper, hence, aimed to 1) study the level of work efficiency of aged governmental officers; and 2) to study the relationship between motivating factors and work efficiency by applying the quantitative research method, using questionnaire as a main data collection. The sample was 170 governmental officers aged 55 years old and above. The finding presented that aged governmental officers had a high level of work efficiency, and human resource practices that correlated with work efficiency were compensation (0.326), followed by fair performance evaluation procedure (0.267), and recognition and respect (0.231) respectively at the significance level of 0.01.