The Job Empowerment of Teachers in Schools Under the Benjaburapha Sub Area in the Secondary Education Service Area Office 2

Abstract

          The objectives of this  research were to study and to compare the state of  job empowerment  of  teachers  in  schools  under the Benjaburapha sub area in the Secondary Education Service Area Office 2, divided by education and working experience. The samples were 241 teachers in schools under the Benjaburapha sub area in the secondary education Service Area Office 2, drawn by simple random sampling and the table of Cohen and Morrison (95% confidence interval reliability). The research instrument was a set of 5-rating-scale and 40-item questionnaires with IOC between 0.60 – 1.00 and reliability coefficients of 0.962 (Cronbach Alpha Coefficient). Statistics employed for data analysis were the mean ( ), frequency, percentage, standard deviation (SD), t test for independent – sample and One – way Analysis of Variance. The findings were as follows: 1) in general, the level of teachers’ opinion toward empowerment of teachers’ job performance was rated at high level, opinion of teachers with different educational background was found to be no difference and teachers who had different working experience expressed differently opinion toward empowerment of teachers’ job performance in general sections, teacher motivation section and school work environment section, at a significant level of 0.05. Teachers who had 5 to 10 years of working experience expressed their opinion more than those who had below 5 years of working experience.