The Interest of the Institute of Vocational Education for the Organization Meeting, The Institute of Vocational Education : Northeastern Region 3

Abstract

              The purposes of this research were 1) to study the interest of vocational institutes for organization meeting, 2) to compare the different demographic characteristics affecting the organization meeting interest for the vocational institutes, and 3) to study the guidelines of organization meeting for vocational institutes, The Institute of Vocational Education: Northeastern Region 3. The samples were 326 respondents who were executives, teachers, and academic staff of the vocational institutes of The Institute of Vocational Education: Northeastern Region 3. The instruments were surveys and semi-structured interviews, which has content validity (IOC) between 0.67-1.00 and reliability (α) 0.981. The statistics were percentage, mean, standard deviations, One-way ANOVA, and the qualitative research was analyzed by content analysis.

              The research results found that the sample group had opinions on the interest in organizing the organization meeting of The Institute of Vocational Education :  Northeastern Region 3 overall was at the highest level, important factor for the organization meeting interest whereas the organization meeting staff was rated as the least important feature. The organization meeting interest observations across the different demographic factors of gender, age, education, and working experience were found to be statistically significant at .05 level. The guidelines of organization meeting for The Institute of Vocational Education: Northeastern Region 3 were; 1) Choose a location that is convenient to travel to; 2) Check the meeting's protocol to be orderly and clear, specifying the appropriate topic, purpose, meeting duration and recording format; 3) Facilitate the meeting participants; and 4) Consider the number of meeting participants and the meeting duration to determine an appropriate budget.