The Soft Skill of School Administrators Affecting the Administration of Secondary Schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission in Bangkok
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to (1) investigate the school administrators’ soft skills and the administration of secondary schools under the office of the Basic Education Commission in Bangkok, (2) examine the relationship between the school administrators’ soft skills and the administration of secondary schools, as well as (3) explore the soft skills affecting the school administration. The population consisted of 119 secondary schools and 9,945 teachers under the office of the Basic Education Commission in Bangkok. The samples of 37 schools and 385 teachers were selected through proportional stratified random sampling. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and multiple stepwise regression were used for data analysis. The findings are as follows: 1. School administrators’ soft skills and school administration were rated at the highest level overall and in all aspects. 2. There was a statistically significant relationship between school administrators’ soft skills and school administration at the .05 level. 3. Five dimensions of school administrators’ soft skills significantly impacted school management administration at the.05 level: communication and presentation skills, teamwork skills, analytical thinking for creative problem-solving, personal development and innovation, and learning and self-development creativity.
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Views and opinions appearing in the Journal it is the responsibility of the author of the article, and does not constitute the view and responsibility of the editorial team.
References
Ahmad, A., Wibowo, T. S., Kisno, K., Salim, N. A., Tohir, A., Putri, A. A., Mintarsih, W., Sobry, M., & Mufid, A. (2021). Organizational learning, soft skills or hard skills: Which are more important to reinforce teachers innovation in early childhood education programs.
Psychology and Education, 58(1), 5052-5076. https://repository.metrouniv.ac.id/id/eprint/5768
Ariratana, W., Sirisookslip, S., & Ngang, T. K. (2015). Development of leadership soft skills among educational administrators. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 186, 331-336. DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.016
Bora, B. (2015). The essence of soft skills. International Journal of Innovative Research and Practices, 3(12), 7-22.
Beardmore, K. W. (2019). Soft skills: Old & new. Online Submission. https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2019.255
Cimatti, B. (2016). Definition, development, assessment of soft skills and their role for the quality of organizations and enterprises. International Journal for Quality Research, 10(1), 97-130. DOI:10.18421/IJQR10.01-05
Crosbie, R. (2005). Learning the soft skills of leadership. Industrial and Commercial Training, 37(1), 45-51. https://doi.org/10.1108/00197850510576484
Dean, S. A. (2017). Soft skills needed for the 21st century workforce. Walden University.
Dixon, J., Belnap, C., Albrecht, C., & Lee, K. (2010). The importance of soft skills. Corporate finance review, 14(6), 35.
Ministry of Education. (2017). The National Education Plan B.E. 2017-2036. The Teachers’ council of Thailand.
Ngang, T. K., Mohamed, S. H., & Kanokorn, S. (2015). Soft skills of leaders and school improvement in high performing schools. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 191, 2127-2131. DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.652
Phuephae, C., Nanthachai, S., & Sarnswang, S. (2022). The relationship between leadership soft skills and decision-making efficiency of school administrators under the Bangkok primary education service area office. Journal of MCU Ubon Review, 7(2), 513-524. https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/mcjou/article/view/257984
Raksanakorn, K., & Khumsamart, S. (2020). Study of conceptual framework in leadership skill development of school administrators for 21st century. Journal of Modern Learning Development, 5(2), 274–283. https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jomld/article/view/241163
Stewart, C., Wall, A., & Marciniec, S. (2016, July). Mixed signals: Do college graduates have the soft skills that employers want?. In Competition Forum, 14(2), 276. American Society for Competitiveness.
Wibowo, T.S., Badiati, A.Q., Annisa, A.A., Wahab, M.K.A., Jamaludin, M.R., Rozikan, M., Mufid, A., Fahmi, K., Purwanto, A., & Muhaini, A. (2020) Effect of hard skills, soft skills, organizational learning and innovation capability on Islamic University Lecturers’ Performance. Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy, 11(7), 556-569. DOI:10.31838/srp.2020.7.80
Yamane, T. (1973) Statistics: An introductory analysis (3rd ed). Harper and Row.