The Situational Leadership Affecting the Effectiveness in Personnel Administration of Primary School under Nonthaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1

Abstract

The objectives of this research were : 1) to study the Situational leadership class of school administrators, 2) to study the effectiveness personnel administration class of schools, and 3) to study the Situational leadership of school administrators affecting the effectiveness of personnel administration of schools under Nonthaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. The population were 1,207 respondents who were school administrators, Deputy Director/personnel manager and teachers of primary schools under Nonthaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. A sample of 300 consisted of 32 school administrators, 32 Deputy Directors, personnel managers and 236 teachers selected by simple random. The instrument was the questionnaire with a reliability of 0.97. Data were analyzed by basic statistics including mean and standard deviation, and test statistics including multiple regression analysis.

The results were as follows. 1) The Situational leadership of the school administrators was at a high level in overall and each aspect, ranked in descending order: selling leadership, participative leadership, delegation leadership and directive leadership, respectively. 2) The effectiveness of personnel administration of the schools was at a high level in overall and each aspect, ranked in descending order: employee retention, human resource development, performance evaluation, recruitment and appointment, and staff planning and placement. 3) The analysis result of the Situational leadership Affecting the Effectiveness of personnel administration of the schools found that the Situational leadership regarding delegation leadership, participative leadership, and selling leadership affected the effectiveness of personnel administration of the schools, respectively, and could predict the effectiveness of school personnel administration at 96.7 percent (=0.935) at a statistical significance level of .05 The Standard Forecasting equation is  = 1.82 + 0.21 (X₄) + 0.18 (X₃) + 0.14 (X₂)