Factors Affecting the Evaluation of Outstanding Performance of Academic Staff at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate factors influencing the outstanding performance of the academic staff of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University. The subjects were 201 academic staff whose status was university employees with no administrative positions as Head of a department or higher and who had worked for 12 months in the year of the performance evaluation round. The data were collected from 2018 to 2022. The subjects were selected using purposive sampling, and the instruments were performance records. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency and percentage, and Spearman's rho was used to determine the relationships between independent variables. A chi-square test was employed to identify factors relating to outstanding performance, and binary logistic regression analysis was performed to find out the relationships between independent and dependent variables. The study found that: 1) academic positions influenced outstanding performance evaluation results at a statistical significance level of 0.01. It was found that academic staff who were associate professors and those who were assistant professors had a better chance to be evaluated as having outstanding performance than those who had no academic titles at 9.803 and 2.785 times, respectively. 2) Academic staff with high load units in other work had greater chance of receiving outstanding performance results than those with lower load units at 4.947 times.