Guidelines for Buddhist Leadership Development of Charity School Directors

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study Buddhist leadership, 2) to create a Buddhist leadership development guidelines, and 3) to evaluate the developed Buddhist leadership development guidelines. The research was carried out in 3 steps: 1) Study the Buddhist leadership of the directors. The samples were 90 school directors/monk directors obtained by simple random sampling. The tool used was a 5-rating scale questionnaire with a coherence (IOC) of 0.60-1.00 and a reliability of 0.98. To evaluate the generated guidelines, the group discussion was conducted with 8 experts/monks to consider the appropriacy of the guidelines, 3) Assess the feasibility and usefulness of the guidelines from the sample group of 50 monks/people obtained by simple random sampling. The tools were feasibility and useful assessment forms. Data were analyzed and summarized in terms of feasibility and usefulness of the guidelines.

The results showed that 1) Buddhist Leadership of the school directors was at the highest level in 8 aspects, namely (1) Attadhipataya (2) Brahmawiharn Dhamma (3) Lokadhipataya (4) Kalyana-mitta Dhamma (5) Sangahavatthutdhamma (6) Dhammathipataya principles (7) Dasaphitharajdhamma principles and (8) Iddhibadadhamma principles. The aspect of Sappurisadhamma was at a high level. 2) The Buddhist leadership development guidelines consisted of (1) principles and reasons (2) objectives of the guidelines (3) guideline development (4) success condition development 3) Buddhist leadership development guidelines had the most possibility and the most helpfulness.