The linear structural equation model of creativity, perceived organizational support, the buddhist leadership and happy at work affecting positive organizational behavior
Abstract:
This research used a mixed methods with the purposes as follow : 1) to describe the definition, the factors of the buddhist leadership (BL) and the buddhist leadership affecting positive organizational behavior (POB). 2) to develop the measurement and analyze the factors of positive organizational behavior, creativity (CT), perceived organizational support (POS), the buddhist leadership, and happy at work (HW). 3) to develop and test validity of the line structural equation model of positive organizational behavior and 4) to develop the buddhist leadership training program for helping to develop the buddhist leadership of leaders and affecting to positive organizational behavior of subordinates. The research was divided into 4 stages. The sample size of the first stage consisted 8 professionals of the buddhist leadership. The sample size of the second stage included 172 employees in construction companies and 185 employees from the second construction company. The sample size of the third stage was 742 employees from the third and the fourth construction companies while the sample size of the fourth stage included 10 leaders, 120 subordinates. The interview was conducted with 3 subordinates in the fourth construction company. Analytical for descriptive statistic using statistic software package for research, the exploratory factor analysis, the confirmatory factor analysis, the structural equation modeling, repeated measures ANOVA, and t-test for dependent sample.
The results were as follows: (1) The definition of The buddhist leadership refers to the process that any person attempts to use the wisdom, goodness and knowledge of their employees and push another person or group to do things actively leading to a good target. (2) The result of confirmatory factor analysis of 5 variables should that the factor loading of positive organizational behavior (POB) creativity (CT), perceived organizational support (POS), The buddhist leadership (BL), and happy at work (HW) were concordant with the empirical data in a good range or high validity (3) The linear structural equation model of positive organizational behavior was concordant with the empirical data in a good range or high validity (Chi-square = 180.75, df = 170, p = .11, GFI = .978, AGFI = .968, SRMR = .035 and RMSEA = .009) according to the criteria. (4) After the experiment, it was found that the results of the three times measurement showed the total score of the buddhist leadership was different with a statistical significance at the level of .01. After using Bonferroni test for pairwise comparisons, three pairs revealed that the total score of the buddhist leadership of leaders in the first measuring less than the second measuring and the third measuring. The total score of the buddhist leadership in three times were different with a statistical significance at the level of .01 showing that after the experiment, the positive organizational behavior of subordinates was higher them before the experiment with the mean = 2.434 and after the experiment the mean = 3.069.