Opinions on the Administrative Problems after Government Reform of the Royal Forest Department's Officials

Abstract

     Objectives of this research were to determine opinion level, recommendation and factors related to opinions of the officials under Royal Forest Department on the administrative problems after government reform. The data was gathered by using the designed questionnaires interviewed 315 sampled Royal Forest Department officials who held position ranging from level 3 to 8, and working under the central and provincial administration. Chi-square method was employed for testing the relationship between dependent and independent variables with the given significance at the .05 level. A computer program was employed for the data analysis. The results of the study indicated that the Royal Forest Department official opinions on administrative problem after the government reform were at the high level with the average score of 3.89, this means that there were various administrative problems after the government reform; the most serious one was the problem about the organization with the average score of 4.07. Thus, the mitigation for such problem will be urgently needed. Based on the options of the officials, factors related to the administration problem were duty classification, personnel and inappropriate authority. Hence, the mentioned weakness should be urgently improved, as well as the Royal Forest Department, Department of National Park, Wildlife and Plants and Department of Marine and Coast Resource should be combined together to be the one and under the Royal Forest Department as before. In addition, the morale of the Royal Forest Department official was the only factor related to the official opinions on administrative problem after the government reform.