Leadership Styles, Communication Styles and Procedures Effect on the Motivation in Military Training of the Donmueang Air Force Command

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to study; 1) the leadership styles affecting the motivation in military training of enlisted soldiers, 2) the communication styles affecting the motivation in military training of enlisted soldiers, 3) the procedure effect affecting the motivation in military training of enlisted soldiers. The sample for this study consisted of 141 active duty enlisted soldiers, selected by a simple random sampling method. A questionnaire with confident level of 0.87 was used as a research tool. The data were analyzed with description statistics of; frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation. Inferential statistics employed were pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression. The results showed that leadership styles, communication styles, and procedure effect can predict the motivation in military training of the Donmueang Air Force Command at significant level of .05.

The research results are as follows:

1. Leadership styles influences the enlisted soldiers training motivation. The relationship between the types of leaders of dictatorial leaders; liberal leaders and democratic leaders, and the enlisted soldiers training motivation are 0.60, 0.79 and 0.52 respectively.

2. Communication styles affect the training motivation of the enlisted soldiers. The relationship of the training motivation and the communication styles of Top to Bottom, Bottom to Top, Horizontal Communication, Diagonal Communication are 0.54, 0.52, 0.50 and 0.51 respectively.

3. The military regulations influence the enlisted soldiers training motivation. The relationship between the military disciplines and the training motivation is 0.79.

4. The leadership styles, the communication styles and the military regulations can predict 74.50 percent of the training motivation of the enlisted soldiers in Office of Donmueang RTAF Base Commander with statistically significant at the .05 level.