Leadership Behavior of Administrators Affecting Success in Educational Management of School under Surat Thani Primary Educational Service Area Office 3

Abstract

This research aimed to study the leadership behavior of administrators, success in educational management and compare the success classified by personal status and relationship between administrators’ behaviors and the success of their educational management as well as finding the predictors and the power of leadership behaviors which affected their success in educational management of schools under Surat Thani Primary Educational Service Area Office 3. Data were collected from 307 school teachers by using questionnaires which separated into two sections; the leadership behavior of administrators and the success in educational management of the schools with their reliabilities of 0.986 and 0.985. Then, they were analyzed by using basic statistics which were means, standard deviation; and the statistic tests were a t-test, one way analysis of variance (One-way ANOVA), Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis.

The results showed that the leadership behaviors of administrators and their success in educational management of schools were overall at a high level. However, the administrators with different sex, education background, work experience and size of the schools had similar opinions on the success of educational management . In addition, executive leadership behavior and their success in managing were overall at a high level. And a comparison of achievements in managing education found that administrators with different gender, education, and work experience including the size of the schools had different opinions on the success of school management. The executive leadership behaviors were associated with success in school management significantly at the 0.01 level. The executive leadership behavior could predict success in school management significantly at the 0.01 level. This included providing assistance and demonstrating initiative ideas. At the same time, being recognition and persuasion could predict success in school management of Surat Thani Primary Educational Service Area Office 3 significantly at the 0.05 level and could predict the percentages of the success in educational management of schools at 82.90.