Abstract:
The objective of this research is to study work motivation and comparing it followed by demographic: gender, age, education, ranks, period of work, and income of police officers at Khlongluang District Police Station, Pathumthani province by using questionnaire for gathering data from sample groups of 322 police officers who are working at Khlongluang District Police Station, Pathumthani province. Statistics used in data analysis comprised frequency, percentage, Arithmetic mean, Standard Deviation, t-test, One-way ANOVA, and LSD method.
Results revealed that the police officers at Khlongluang District Police Station, Pathumthani province had high level of work motivation ( = 4.04). Considering on each variable founded the high value in all dimensions. The relationship with colleagues had the highest average mean ( = 4.44), followed by workplace environment ( = 4.33), incentive ( = 4.17), work accomplishment ( = 3.99), welfare ( = 3.94), relationship with commander ( = 3.70), respectively. The lowest average mean was career growth ( = 3.69).
The result of hypothesis testing found that the police officers who had different age, education, ranks, period of work, and income, the difference of work motivation reached statistical significance at .05 level. Nevertheless, gender variable did not effect to work motivation of the police officers at Khlongluang District Police Station, Pathumthani province.