Abstract:
The purposes of this research were: 1) to describe the meaning, the factors that involve and the results of the participation in corporate social responsibility activities of employees in electricity authority state enterprise. 2) to develop measure instruments for self-efficacy, motivation in corporate social responsibility activities, social support, participation in corporate social responsibility activities and organizational commitment. 3) to develop and examine the appropriateness of the causal model of the participation in corporate social responsibility activities of employees in electricity authority state enterprise with the empirical data. 4) to study the results of the developed program for the participation in corporate social responsibility activities of employees in electricity authority state enterprise.
The research was divided into 4 phases: The sample group of the first phase was 12 employees from Provincial Electricity Authority. The sample group of the second phase was 150 employees from Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand. For the third phase, the sample group included 606 Provincial Electricity Authority employees. The sample group of the fourth phase was 18 employees from Provincial Electricity Authority who voluntarily participated in the experiment which were equally divided into control group and experimental group. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistic, percentage, average, standard deviation, correlation, confirmatory factor analysis, causal models and t-test by computer program.
The major findings were:
1) The interview results revealed that the meaning of the participation in corporate social responsibility activities of employees in electricity authority state enterprise involved participation in thinking, participation in activities, voluntary participation, donations of money and other necessities. Internal factors involved that affected the participation in corporate social responsibility activities of employees in electricity authority state enterprise included help others needs, social needs, self-efficacy and perceived benefits from the participation in corporate social responsibility activities in the organization. External factors that affected the participation in corporate social responsibility activities of employees in organization included communications and public relations, organizational culture, social support of organization, organizational policies and supervisors. Furthermore, the results of the participation in corporate social responsibility activities of employees in electricity authority state enterprise were happiness and pride of employees and organizational image.
2) The results of development of measure instruments for self-efficacy, motivation in corporate social responsibility activities, social support, participation in corporate social responsibility activities and organizational commitment revealed that the model of confirmation factor analysis of the self-efficacy was concordant with the empirical data by considering the statistical Chi-Square of Goodness of Fit = 114.77, df = 167, /df = .69, RMSEA = .000, GFI = .94, AGFI = .90, CN = 251.52 and P-value = .99 . The results revealed that the model of confirmation factor analysis of the participation in corporate social responsibility activities was concordant with the empirical data by considering the statistical Chi-Square of Goodness of Fit = 119.13, df = 189, /df = 0.63, RMSEA = .000, GFI = .94, AGFI = .90, CN = 276.06 and P-value = .99 . Moreover, the results revealed that the model of confirmation factor analysis of the social support was in line with the empirical data by considering the statistical Chi-Square of Goodness of Fit = 115.27, df = 169, /df = 0.68, RMSEA = .000, GFI = .94, AGFI = .90, CN = 269.28 with P-value = .99 . The results showed that the model of confirmation factor analysis of the participation in corporate social responsibility activities was congruent with the empirical data by considering the statistical Chi-Square of Goodness of Fit = 112.48, df = 212, /df = .53, RMSEA = .000, GFI = .95, AGFI = .90, CN = 251.52 and P-value = 1.00. The results revealed that the model of confirmation factor analysis of the organizational commitment supported the empirical data by considering the statistical Chi-Square of Goodness of Fit = 93.15, df = 153, /df = 0.61, RMSEA = .000 , GFI = .94, AGFI = .91, CN = 306.61 and P-value = .99.
3) The causal model of corporate social responsibility activities was concordant with the empirical data with Chi-Square/ df = 2.34, RMSEA = 0.047, GFI = 0.97, AGFI = 0.93 and CN = 393.62.
4) The average of corporate social responsibility activities of experimental group between before and after training showed statistically significant different level of .01, or significantly increasing after the training. Furthermore, the average of corporate social responsibility activities between experimental group and control group after training showed statistically significant different level of .01, which the average of experimental group was higher than that of the control group.