Abstract—This study examined the perception and
understanding of private company employees toward ASEAN
Community (AC), ASEAN Political-Security Community
(APSC), ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and ASEAN
Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) in Thailand. The objective
was “to study how demographic factors can influence the
perception and understanding of private company employees
toward ASEAN Community in Thailand”. This study adopted a
quantitative research approach. All data were collected using a
questionnaire survey. The 400 sets of questionnaires were filled
by employees who work for a private company in Thailand. The
data were tested using descriptive and inferential statistical
analysis tools. The descriptive tool employed in this study
included frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation.
Furthermore, the inferential statistical tools used in this
research were independent t-test and One-way ANOVA. The
result indicated that the perception and understanding of male
and female toward APSC was significantly different (p value =
0.003). The results also indicated that there was a significant
difference on the perception and understanding of private
company employees toward APSC among age groups (p value =
0.003). Moreover, this study found that the perception and
understanding of private company employees toward APSC (p
value = 0.003), AEC (p value = 0.000) and ASCC (p value =
0.003) were significantly different among education levels.
Index Terms—ASEAN community, perception,
understanding, Thailand.
The authors are with College of Graduate Study in Management, Khon
Kaen University. Bangkok, Thailand (e-mail: phiengruthai@yahoo.com,
yousapro@yahoo.com).
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Cite: Phieangruthai Tangthienthong and Khanchitpol Yousapronpaiboon, " A Study on Perception and Understanding of Private Company Employees toward ASEAN Community in Thailand," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 627-631, 2015.