International Research E-Journal on Business and Economics : Volume 2 Issue 1 (May 2016)

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    Improving employees' engagement and communication: a case study of professional accounting services (PAS) Chiangmai, Thailand
    This research focused on engagement and the communication as most common factors that affect the people in an organization to be more productive. After a thorough analysis and consultation with the management team of PAS organization, the need for improvement for internal productivity exists. Therefore, OD interventions (ODI) were conducted to increase the level of employees' engagement and communication between the management and the employees to improve productivity. A total of 3 ODI were conducted; team building activity, group sharing session, and Whole Brain Literacy (WBL) coaching. The results of the activities were all in the positive aspect. Both qualitative and qualitative data collected showed positive outcomes especially in the area of communication understanding and internal working productivity. The engagement, communication understanding, and productivity increased by 2.74%, 10.47%, 7.86%, respectively.
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    A proposed ODI to improve motivation and loyalty among engineers: a case study of UNC Company
    The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the current situation of UNC Company in terms of improving motivation and loyalty among engineers in an engineering department which had a high rate of turnover. On the basis of the initial assessment, the researcher identified, developed and proposed appropriate OD interventions to improve motivation and loyalty in the UNC Company. Using the action research model, this study at the diagnostic phase used survey questionnaire to collect quantitative data from 30 respondents who were engineers of UNC Company. A statistic program was used to analyze the results of the research by descriptive statistics, average weighted mean and multiple regression. Finding showed that Motivation and Loyalty were interconnected. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to improve intrinsic motivation, loyalty and include career management.
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    Improving service quality of the restaurant staff: a case study of Deutsches Eck pub & restaurant
    This study focused on improving the service quality of the restaurant staff in terms of communication, assurance and responsiveness at Deutsches Eck pub and restaurant. The researcher conducted the survey of the restaurant service by using questionnaires with 35 selected customers and conducted the interviews with two managements in the Pre-ODI and Post-ODI phases. Interview data was used as qualitative data. Mean and frequency were used as the quantitative data from the questionnaire. Paired Sample T - Test was used to determine the initial impact of ODI in improving the service quality in terms of communication, assurance and responsiveness. After the implementation of the OD interventions to 14 service staffs, those activities were found to be effective. The customers were more satisfied with their expected service in the restaurant. there was significant difference between the Pre and the Post ODI on communication, assurance and responsiveness. Thus, the continuous development is leading the restaurant service to go beyond customer's expectation.
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    The influencing factors toward brand loyalty of smartphone in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the influencing factors of the independent variables, i.e. brand affect, brand trust, customer satisfaction, perceived quality, advertising spending, customer orientation, and CSR toward brand loyalty as dependent variable for the Apple iPhone in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Then, the conceptual framework was designed from the theoretical framework, and hypotheses were constructed from the conceptual framework in order to know the relationship between dependent variable and independent variable. The researcher targets university students both male and female who currently use the Apple iPhone. A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed at the top five rankings of number of university students in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The researcher used SPSS software for the statistical treatment of data by applying descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. The results of this study showed that brand trust had a high positive significant influence on brand affect, perceived quality had a high positive significant influence on satisfaction, advertising spending had a high positive significant influence on perceived quality. furthermore, brand affect, brand trust, satisfaction, perceived quality, and CSR had a positive significant influence on brand loyalty in terms of behavior, commitment, and price tolerance. Whereas, only one variable which is advertising spending had a negative significant influence on brand loyalty in terms of behavior. However, customer orientation had not a significant influence on brand loyalty in terms of behavior, commitment, and price tolerance.
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    A study of factors affecting the Gold Price in Thailand during 2005-2015
    The objective of this study was to determine the factors that affected the Gold Price in Thailand during 2005-2015. Monthly data from January 2005 to March 2015 were used to analyze the impact of World Gold Price, Oil Price, Dow Jones Industrial Average, USD Index, Consumer Price Index, SET Index, Interest Rate, Exchange Rate, and Time Lag on the Gold Price in Thailand. Multiple regression analysis was employed in this study. The findings of this study had identified World Gold Price, Dow Jones Industrial Average, USD Index, Consumer Price Index, SET Index, and Time Lag as significant predictors of the Gold Price in Thailand. The result of this study would be useful to investors, individual buyers, and sellers for their analysis and decision making on trading gold profitably.