Abstract:
The objective of this research is to study the deviance of personnel practice of Thai local civil servants which is mentioned to bad personnel system, in order to find out definition, some factor that stimulate actor to perform illegal or deviate merit principle and impact of deviance of personnel practice. Regarding the research methodology, the author took the descriptive analysis to find out the answers of research questions. The methodologies can be divided into four parts : documentary review, interview, case studies, which indicating bad practice of personnel, and Delphi technique. A group of experts in local personnel management were invited to explain the definition , causes and impacts of bad practice of personnel management including the mechanism to reform the Thai local civil servant system toward good a governance practice and analize the several case study in deep details . The research shows that the definition of deviant behavior characterized by corruption, unfair treatments and wrongful acts in the process of personnel management. The causes of deviant behavior derived from three main factors. Firstly, internal human behaviors. Several actors lack of good learning, perceptions, or have negative motivation, attitudes to deviate norms or merit principle. Secondly, internal organization environment. The structure and personnel processs in local personnel law are obvious or inappropriate which stimulate some actor abuse of power or lack of mechanism to control and check of balance. A conflict of different roles between local executives and permanent employees. Finally, external organization environment. Regarding a factor of money politics in democracy system to stimulate some actor make decision based on money and not follow political contest rules include intevene in personnel process. A factor of material capitalism economics to stimulate unfair business running and protection and a factor of local social culture is based on spoil system. However, internal human behaviors is the most significant factor to have actors consider to perform a deviant or good personnel behavior. The mechanism to reform can be conducted by 4 REs Model, RE-thinking of actors, RE-Structure, RE-process of personnel law and RE-tooling of management techniques.