Office Hours : -

Email : pradit@nida.ac.th

Tel. : 02-727-3954/02-727-3946

CURRENT POSITIONS

• ACADEMIC Associate Professor of Business Administration

EDUCATION

PhD University of North Texas, USA
Major : Management Science
Minor : Production/Operations Management
Graduated : May 1994

MS; MBA University of Evansville, USA
Major: Engineering Management (MS) Quantitative Business Analysis (MBA)
Graduated: December 1986 (MS); May 1989 (MBA)

B.Eng. Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Major: Civil Engineering
Graduated: March 1982

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES (at National Institute of Development Administration)

• President (6/2013 to 9/2018)
• Vice President for Academic Affairs (3/2007 to 6/2013)
• Dean of Graduate School of Business Administration (10/2005 to 3/2007) 

OTHER EXPERIENCES

• Chairman, Higher Education Budget Committee, Thai Government
• Chairman, Private Higher Education Institution Act, B.E. 2546 Committee
• Member, Board of Higher Education, Minister of Higher Education
• Member of the National Legislative Assembly of Thailand
• Acting President of the Council of University Presidents of Thailand
• Consultant, Total Risk Management Committee
  The Bangchak Petroleum Public Company Ltd., Thailand
• Member, Risk Management Committee
  Government Pharmaceutical Organization, Thailand
• Member, Economic Consulting Committee
  The Federation of Thai Industries
• Cost Analyst
  North American Roofing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
• Structural Engineer
  The Ua Withya Equipment Company, Bangkok, Thailand

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teach At

• Graduate School of Business, NIDA
• Joint Doctoral Program in Business Administration, NIDA-Chula-Thammasat
• MBA Programs at several public and private Universities
• University of North Texas

Courses Taught

Quantitative Analysis for Business Decisions. Broad coverage of statistics and quantitative managerial techniques for business decisions. This course focuses on the concepts and the use of statistical and mathematical models for economic and business problems.

Production/Operations Management. The analysis and design of production/ operations systems in a decision-making context. Topics included demand forecasting, plant capacity planning and location, plant layout, job design and work measurement, inventory planning and control, quality control, and JIT concepts.

Business Statistics. Topics included level of measurement for numerical data, frequency distributions, probability concepts and applications, central limit theorem, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, independent/dependent samples, ANOVA, simple and multiple linear regression, and time series analysis.

Operations Research/Management Science. Topics included linear/nonlinear programming, integer programming, dynamic programming, transportation problem, assignment problem, network models, project scheduling (PERT/CPM), inventory control models, decision analysis with and without probabilities, simulation, and Markov analysis.

Project Management. Concepts and theories used in managing a project throughout the entire cycle including activities in selection, definition, initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control, completion and post-implementation review.

Business Policy and Strategic Management. The applications of business environments to formulate the relevant strategies and policies, including an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the firms, formulation and evaluation of competitive strategies and policies with existing resources.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Chat-uthai, M., Wanarat, P., Kanitpong, T. (May 2019). Managing human capital in an era of change. NIDA Business Journal. No. 24. p. 111-122

Chat-uthai, M. and Wanarat, P (February 2018). Enhancing Thailand's competitiveness through the understanding of human capital. Asian Social Science. Vol. 14, No.2. p. 98-104

Chat-uthai, M. and Wanarat, P (Nov 2018). Human capital as powerful source for Thailand's competitiveness. NIDA Business Journal. No. 22. p. 5-23   

Chat-uthai, M. and Wanarat, P (May 2016). Understanding Dishonesty through an Application of Behavioural Science. NIDA Business Journal. No. 18. p. 5-29 

“The Business Strategies and Innovations of Automotive Part and Accessory Firms” (with C and S Kuntonbutr); RMUTT Global Business and Economics International Conference (RTBEC) 2015

“Benefits and Limitations of Dual Program.” International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities, Seoul, Korea, September 2008

“The Performance Assessment of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT): A Survey of Public Satisfaction Towards SRT’s Services.” 2000, 2001, and 2002
“The Performance Assessment of the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA): A Survey of Public Satisfaction Towards BMTA’s Services.” 1997

“Examination of the Classificatory Performance of MIP Models with Secondary Goals for the Two – Group Discriminant Problem.” (with Robert Pavur and Constantine Loucopoutos) Annals of Operations Research, Volume 74, pp. 173-189, November 1997

“Examining the Effect of Second – Order Terms in Mathematical Programming Approaches to the Classification Problem.” (with Robert Pavur) European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 93, pp. 852-601, Number 3, September 1996

“Second-Order Terms in Classification Models.” National Institute of Development Administration, Imprint, Bangkok, 1995

"Evaluating Mathematical Programming Discriminant Models for Marketing Research." (with Sanjay Mehta and Robert Pavur) American Marketing Association Summer Educators Annual Conference, August 1995, Washington D.C.

"Appropriateness of Mathematical Programming in Marketing to Solve Discriminant Problems: A Monte Carlo Simulation Approach." (with Sanjay Mehta and Robert Pavur) Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference, May 1995, Orlando FL.

"Determining the Effect of Centering Predictor Variables in a Polynomial Regression Model to Reduce Multicollinearity." (with Robert Pavur) Accepted at the 1994 Annual Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Southwest Region.

"Second Order Terms in LP-Based Models to Solve the Statistical Discriminant Problem." (with Robert Pavur) Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute, vol. 2, pp. 1166-1168, November 1993

"Estimating Misclassification Rates for Linear Discriminant Functions with Generated Nonnormal Data." (with Robert Pavur) Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute, Southwest Region, pp. 36-38, March 1993

PROCEEDINGS

Chat-uthai, M., Wanarat, P., Kanitpong, T. (November 2021). The influence of Pandemic on work life values of Thai workers. 5th International Conference on Growing Trends in Practical and Academic Research. Year 2021 

Chat-uthai, M. and Wanarat, P. (April 2019). A case survey of high-performance organization in Thailand's energy sector. National Conference on Development Administration, NIDA. Year 2019.  

Chat-uthai, M., Wanarat, P., Kanitpong, T. (March 2019). Enhancing of human capital for business transformation. International Conference on Business Administration. Year 2019.  

Chat-uthai, M. and Wanarat, P (April 2018). Developing capable workforce for the future world of work. National Conference on Development Administration, NIDA. Year 2018.  

Chat-uthai, M., Wanarat, P. and Ongsakul, V. (2017). Follow the King's Teachings: From dots of actions to sustainability. National Conference on Development Administration, NIDA. Year 2017  

BOOK and ELECTRONIC SOFTWARE

Chat-uthai, M. and Wanarat, P (November 2021). Business Performance Analysis Workbook.  NIDA Business School Book Publishing. (ISBN: 9786165864800)  

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