Strategic Leadership Affects the Learning Organization of Schools Under The Secondary Educational Service Area Office Bangkok 1

Abstract

While a considerable amount of research has explored Educational Quality, there has been relatively little focus on strategic leadership. Therefore, in developing a learning organization within educational institutions, Administrators with strategic leadership qualities play a crucial role in driving schools toward becoming learning organizations. The purposes of this research are to: 1) study the strategic leadership level of school administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office, Bangkok 1 2) study the level of being a learning organization of educational institutions under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office, Bangkok 1 3) study the strategic leadership relationship with the learning organization of educational institutions under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office, Bangkok 1 and 4) study the strategic leadership that affects the learning organization of educational institutions under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office, Bangkok 1. The main findings of this research are: 1) The overall level of strategic leadership of school administrators is high, with the following aspects ranked from highest to lowest: Strategic direction, Strategy implementation, Strategic thinking, Human resource development and Strategic control. 2) The overall level of becoming a learning organization for the schools is high, with the following aspects ranked from highest to lowest: Technology-supported Learning, Shared vision, Team learning and Optimize Organizational Structure. 3) There is a highly significant positive relationship between the strategic leadership of school administrators and becoming a learning organization for the schools, with statistical significance at the level of .01 4) The strategic leadership factor that most affects becoming a learning organization is developing human resources, followed by setting the direction of the organization, with statistical significance at the level of .05, The overall predictive power of these factors is 68.3 percent.