A model for Developing the Leaders of community Organizations in Muang District to Anti-Corruption

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to design a model for developing the leaders of community organization to Anti-Corruption by means of training knowledge group construction, to evaluate the implementation of the knowledge group and to make a comparative study of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors on anti-corruption. The samples consisted of forty-four leaders of community organizations, who were selected by the simple random sampling technique. The research instruments were questionnaires for evaluating knowledge on anti-corruption, attitudes on anti-corruption and behaviors on anti-corruption. Two evaluation forms were used to assess the congruence and appropriateness of the training knowledge group. The statistics used for analyzing the collected data were percentage, mean, standard deviation and paired t-test was employed for testing hypotheses.

The finding of the study revealed that the most effective strategy for anti-corruption was knowledge group construction to develop the leaders of community organizations. The knowledge group consisted of four stages: 1) studying and analyzing problem, theories and review research documents and assessing needs; 2) establishing and developing the knowledge group ; 3) implementing the knowledge group 4) evaluating and improving the knowledge group. This strategy provided an opportunity for developing the leaders of community organization to anti-corruption through the training process. The contents of training knowledge group consisted of four units, namely, 1) Knowledge and Skills on Leadership, 2) Knowledge and Skills Art of Speech for Communication, 3) Knowledge and Skills on Development Teamwork and Network, 4) Knowledge and Skills on Anti-Corruption. The research results showed that the leaders of community organizations had higher scores on anti-corruption, the level of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors on anti-corruption after training as a whole than before training (p-value < 0.05).