Strategic Leadership of Administrators Affecting Effectiveness of Operation According to The Standards of Childhood Development Center Under the Local Government in Yasothon Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) to investigate the strategic leadership of administrators under the local government in Yasothon Province; 2) to investigate an effectiveness of operation according to standards of the childhood development centers under the local government in Yasothon Province; 3) to explore the relationship between strategic leadership of administrators and the effectiveness of operation according to standards of the childhood development centers under the local government in Yasthon Province; and

4) to explore the strategic leadership of administrators affecting of effectiveness of operation according to standards of the childhood development centers under the local government in Yasothon Province. The samples were totally 242, determine by comparing population to the Krejcie & Morgan table, consisted of 95 administrators, 147 children's caretaker-teachers.

The samples were random through proportional stratified random sampling technique. The questionnaire with 5 rating scale were used in collecting the data with reliability of strategic leadership questionnaire and effective operation questionnaire at 0.985 and 0.977, respectively. The statistics used in data analysis were mean, standard deviation, Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression.

The research results were: 1) Strategic leadership of administrators under the local government in Yasothon Province in overall and each aspect were at a high level;

2) Effectiveness of operation according to standards of the childhood development centers under the local government in Yasothon Province in overall and each aspect were at a high level; 3) The relationship between strategic leadership of administrators and the effectiveness of operation according to standards of the childhood development centers under the local government in Yasothon Province was positive correlation at a high level

with .01 level of statistical significance; and 4) Strategic leadership of administrators in the aspect of gathering multiple inputs to formulate strategy (X2), creating a vision (X5), and strategy implementation (X6) are together predicted the effectiveness of operation according to standards of the childhood development centers under the local government in Yasothon Province with 53.90% at .01 level of statistical significance. The predictive equations could be written as follow:

Predictive equation in raw score

Y' =1.886 + 293X+.145X, +.114X, Predictive equation in standard score 7,=.4272X, +.200ZX

6+. 1532X2