INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS IN THE CENTRAL PART

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to create innovative leadership elements of the university administrators in the central part. 2) to analyze innovative leadership elements of the university administrators in the central part and 3) to create the strategy development of innovative leadership elements of the university administrators in the central part. This research was mixed research. The population was 912 university administrators and the samples consisted of  259 university administrators in the central part by Hair & Others with simple random sampling.  The data analysis was done by mean, standard deviation, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis.

          The research results were revealed as follows,

1. The elements of creating innovative leadership of university administrators in the central part had 4 elements, 37 indicators. The element 1: personality aspect had 8 indicators. The element 2: skill aspect had 9 indicators.  The element 3:  innovative creation aspect had 11 indicators and the element 4: teamwork aspect had 9 indicators.
2. The results of analyzing the elements of innovative leadership of university administrators in the central part found that all the weight of 37 indicators passed the criterion by having weight value between .891 - .661.  
3. The results of creating the development strategy of innovative leadership elements of the university administrators in the central part consist of 1) to be good listeners 2) to search knowledge continuously 3) to focus on the direction and strategy to create innovation and 4) to be a part of teamwork members and network.