Leadership Behavior of Directors Child Care Centers Affecting Caregiver Teachers Morale under the Local Administrative Organizations in Nakhon Phanom Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study 1) levels of leadership behavior of directors of child development centers; 2) levels of work morale of child care teachers; 3) relationship between directors of child development centers’ leadership behavior and child care teachers’ work morale; 4) predictive power of directors of child development centers’ leadership behavior affecting child care teachers’ work morale and 5) approaches on work morale improvement of leadership behavior of directors of child development centers. Sample group consisted of 289 child care teachers, Multi-stage Random Sampling. The tool of choice in data collection was a questionnaire. Statistics applied in data frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson product-moment correlation as well as to conduct stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results are as follows, The overall and each aspect of leadership behavior of directors child development centers and Work Morale of child care teachers are at a high level. In an overall, Leadership Behavior and work morale of child care teachers has a high-level positive relationship with operational effectiveness of child development centers under local administrative organizations in Nakhon Phanom Province with a statistical significance at .01 level. Predictive power of the 5 aforementioned variables is at 55.40 %. 2 approaches on the improvement of directors of child development centers’ leadership behavior, which are 1) participation and 2) higher emphasis on individual relationship.