The Development of Reimbursement Manual for Off-site Workshop Organization of Personnel of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University

Abstract

This research aimed to: 1) develop a reimbursement handbook for workshop training outside the University for Staff of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; and 2) study the satisfaction of staff of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences or those who used the developed reimbursement handbook. The research sample was 80 staff of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, derived by purposive sampling.

The research result showed that:

1. Regarding the summary of submission and return of petition for reimbursement of workshop training outside the university, it was found that projects organized before the trial of the handbook had some mistakes. The errors included the receipt of speaker remuneration did not have the payer’s signature in case of borrowing money for advance payment, and the food bill did not identify the date, the bill number, and the seller’s taxpayer number. Moreover, the amount of speaker remuneration in the document did not consistent with the training hours in the receipt, the bill/receipt for rent of the conference room did not identify details on the training date and time, and the document for bus rent should be a bill, not an invoice. However, after the trial of the handbook, no mistake had been found.

2. Regarding the general information, the questionnaire respondents mostly were female (68.75%), while 31.25% were male. Most of the respondents (40%) have worked at the Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University between 11-15 years, followed by 16–20 years of work tenure (31.25%) and 6-10 years of work tenure (18.25%). More than half of the respondents (57.50%) hold master’s degrees, and the rest hold doctoral degrees (42.50%), consisting of government officers, university academic staff, and university supporting staff. 97.50% of the respondents were university staff (academic), while 2.50% were government officers. The top three departments of the respondents were Social Study (12.50%), English Education (10.00%), and Law (8.75%). It was found that overall, the respondents perceived the reimbursement of workshop training outside the university at a high level. When considering each aspect, the perception of the reimbursement of speaker remuneration was at a high level, followed by the perception of the reimbursement of food expenses, the reimbursement of allowance, and the organization of online training. They were at a moderate level.