The Preparation for Retirement of Supporting Personnel of Faculty of Medicine Khon Kaen University

Abstract

        The preparation for retirement of supporting personnel is of paramount importance to help our employees be ready for a happy end of life; therefore, this research article was conducted with aims to study: 1) the preparation before retirement, 2) compare the level of preparation before retirement of supporting personnel Faculty of Medicine Khon Kaen University. The quantitative data of this research were collected from March until May 2021, with the sample group of 305 supporting personnel from the Faculty of Medicine Khon Kaen University which derived from sampling calculation following Taro Yamane. Data analysis statistics were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and One-way ANOVA. The results shows that 1) overall preparation of support personnel appeared to be at high level of preparation before retirement (M = 3.70, SD = 0.73). In addition, when considering each aspect, it was found that 2) the level of preparation before retirement appeared to have no difference among the personnel with different gender, marital status, working status affiliated agencies and monthly income. It could be asserted here that different people have no different preparation before retirement. It was also found that employees with different educational levels had different preparation before retirement with statistically significant at the level of 0.05. The findings can thus be used to analyze the training support to be appropriate according to the educational level of personnel.