Leadership Soft Skills of the Administrators Affecting Effectiveness of Teachers’ Performance in Schools under the Office of Nakhon Ratchasima Primary Education Service Area Office 1

Abstract

The main objectives of this research were 1) to study the effectiveness of teachers' performance in schools, 2) to study of the leadership soft skills of school administrators, and 3) to study of the leadership soft skills of school administrators affecting the effectiveness of teacher’s performance in schools under the Nakhon Ratchasima Primary Education Service Area Office 1. The sample group consisted of 320 school administrators and teachers by a stratified random sampling. The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire and the reliability of the questionnaire was 0.978. Using stepwise multiple regression analysis method for calculating. The findings of the research were as follows; 1) The effectiveness of teachers' performance in schools indicated a high level of performance. The highest performance was the class management. 2) Leadership soft skills of school administrators indicated a high level of performance. The highest performance were the teamwork and lifelong learning skill and the information management skill. 3) Leadership soft skills of school administrators included the teamwork skill (X₃), the lifelong learning and the information management skills (X₆), the communication and the presentation skills (X₁), the professional and ethical skills (X₅), the analytical thinking and the creative problem-solving skills (X₂) affect and predict the effectiveness of teachers’ performance in schools with the percentage of 85.1 and it was statistically significant at 0.05 level. These could be formed as the regression equations of standardized score as follows;

Zy = 0.370 (ZX₃) + 0.353(ZX₆) + 0.096 (ZX₁) + 0.132 (ZX₅) + 0.094 (ZX₂)