The Study of Causal Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Educational Management of the Faculty of Management Science, Rajabhat University, Thailand

Abstract

          There is a growing recognition that the study of the relationship of inflecting factors is important in the development of the transition management under the organization's goals and social environment. This research has set out on three objectives as follows: 1) to study and examine the casual factors relationship affecting education management effectiveness of the organization, 2) to study casual factors influencing education management effectiveness of the organization, and 3) to study guidelines and recommendations for applying causal relationship factors influencing educational management effectiveness in the development of the organization. This research is a case study carried out by using a total of 38 organizations of Faculty of Management Science, Rajabhat Universities, and determined as a unit of study. The research is designed on the mixed methods approaches. The quantitative research method, research samplings are derived from multistage random consisted of 360 faculty’s academic and support staff from all organizations, with the tools’ Index of Objective Congruency was between 0.80 – 1.00 and their reliability values is equal 0.952. The empirical data are analyzed Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with statistical package. For the qualitative research method, through the purposive sampling method, the research is conducted through in-depth interviews with a group of 9 key informants, from representative who are working as the faculty’s executive management, and the results are analyzed with content analysis.
          The research finding from empirical data indicated that, 1) the analysis on results of examining the consistency of the causal relationship model showed that, the model is consistent with the empirical data, with  c² = 91.84, df =73, c² /df = 1.26, P-value = 0.067, GFI= 0.97, AGFI= 0.96, RMSEA = 0.03. and 2) the direct casual factors affecting education management effectiveness of organization comprised organization culture, organization culture and their executive leadership respectively. Where the qualitative data analysis highlights that the opinions of the key informants are consistent and support the results from quantitative findings. Accordingly, they also provide some guidance and recommendation on the application of model and factors being studied could lead to apply the development of educational effectiveness and could lead the organization’s management changing course in future.