Human Resource Management Strategic that Affects to the Competitive Advantage of the Manufacturing Factories in the Special Economic Zone, Tak Province

Abstract

This research has the aims as 1) to study the human resource management strategic that affects to the competitive advantage of the manufacturing factories in the special economic zone, Tak Province, and 2) to study the relationship between human resource management strategic and the competitive advantage of manufacturing factories. The sample consisted of 80 manufacturing industry entrepreneurs in the same area. The research instrument used was a questionnaire. The statistical tools included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, one-way analysis of variance, and multiple regression correlation coefficient analysis. The comparative results found that the entrepreneurs had the highest overall opinion of human resource management strategic in their industries. When considering each aspect, they were at the highest level in 5 aspects with similar average in order as performance evaluation, compensation and benefits, safety and health, human resource planning, and labor relations. There were two aspects at a high level as recruitment and selection, and human resource development. Regarding to the competitive advantage, both overall and specific aspects were at the highest level. The entrepreneurs from different types of production manufacturing had different opinions on competitive advantage at a statistical level of 0.05 significantly. The analysis of the relationship between human resource management strategic and competitive advantage can be concluded that the human resource management strategic in terms of safety and health (0.014), labor relations (0.017), and performance evaluation (0.032) influenced the overall competitive advantage of manufacturing industries. The labor relations (0.001) affected the competitive advantage in terms of cost efficiency. The compensation and benefits (0.025), and performance evaluation (0.033) impacted competitive advantage in terms of differentiation. The safety and health (0.034) influenced competitive advantage in terms of rapid response to customer needs.