Power Exercising of School Administrators Affecting Morale and Encouragement at Work of Teachers Under Nakhon Sawan Primary Education Service Area Office 3

Abstract

This research aimed 1) to study power exercising levels of school administrators under Nakhon Sawan Primary Education Service Area Office 3, 2) to study levels of morale and encouragement at work of teachers under Nakhon Sawan Primary Education Service Area Office 3, 3) to study the relationship between power exercising of school administrators and morale and encouragement at work of teachers under Nakhon Sawan Primary Education Service Area Office 3, and 4) to make a prediction equation of power exercising of school administrators that can predict morale and encouragement at work of teachers under Nakhon Sawan Primary Education Service Area Office 3. The sample in the study consisted of 285 teachers under Nakhon Sawan Primary Education Service Area Office 3. Data were collected from a 5-point rating scale questionnaire which IOC ranged between 0.60 and 1.00 and the reliability was 0.953. The findings from the study revealed as follows:1) Power exercising of school administrators under Nakhon Sawan Primary Education Service Area Office 3 was at a high level.2) Morale and encouragement at work of teachers under Nakhon Sawan Primary Education Service Area Office 3 was at a high level.3) Power exercising of school administrators was positively related at the statistical significance level of 0.05 to morale and encouragement at work of teachers under Nakhon Sawan Primary Education Service Area Office 3.4) Power exercising of school administrators  with   equations can be constructed as follows, respectively. = 3.29 + 0.07 (X₁) + 0.06 (X₄) + 0.10 (X₅)  =  0.11 (Z₁) + 0.11 (Z₄) + 0.15 (Z₅)