THE INFLUENCE OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF SAVINGS COOPERATIVE EMPLOYEES, THAILAND

Nuengrutai  Chanpoom; Watcharapong  Intrawong

Nuengrutai Chanpoom Graduate Student of Kasetsart University, Thailand
Watcharapong Intrawong Department of Business Management, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Management Science, Kasetsart University, Thailand

Abstract

The research objectives of the Influence of strategic leadership and organizational climate on organizational commitment of savings cooperative employees were; 1) to study strategic leadership of the administrators of savings cooperative 2) to study organizational climate of savings cooperative 3) to study organizational commitment of savings cooperative employees 4) to investigate the influence of strategic leadership and organizational climate on organizational commitment of savings cooperative employees. The questionnaire was the instrument for data collecting. Data was collected from a sample of 93 respondents who were the savings cooperative employees in Sakon Nakhon Provinces, Thailand. Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient was conducted to test reliability; the strategic leadership was 0.928, the organizational climate was 0.891, and the organizational commitment was 0.882. The hypotheses were testing by Pearson correlation analysis and simple regression analysis.
The data analyses were as follow; the strategic leadership, the organizational climate, and the organizational commitment were high level. The strategic leadership can be predicted as a 27.3 % on organizational commitment, it had a positive direct influence on organizational commitment with standard coefficient value (β) of .530, can be predicted as a 43.1 % on organizational climate, and it had a positive direct influence on organizational climate with standard coefficient value (β) of .657. Organizational climate can be predicted as 48.7% on organizational commitment, and organizational climate had positive influence on organizational commitment with standard coefficient value (β) of .702. The research finding will benefit to the management of savings cooperatives to improve their management approach in leaders’ development, organizational climate, and employees’ organizational commitment.