Leadership Style of Executives of Local Administrative Organization Affecting Public Participation in Local Development

Abstract

This research aimed to study the leadership style of executives of local administrative organization affecting public participation in local development, level of public participation in local development, and leadership style of executives of local administrative organization affecting public participation in local development. The sample used for study consisted of two groups. The first group was composed of 38 executives of local administrative organization in Mueang district, Buriram province, derived by purposive sampling, and the second group comprised 455 people in Mueang district, Buriram province. The sample size was determined by table of Krejcie & Morgan and stratified random sampling and simple random sampling were employed. The tools used for data collection were management style diagnosis test of Reddin and questionnaire on public participation of Cohen & Uphoff. The statistics used for analysis included descriptive statistics i.e. frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics i.e. multiple correlation and multiple regression. The findings of research were as follows: 1) The leadership style of executives of local administrative organization which was mostly used was the Benevolent Autocrat, which was followed by the Developer and the Executive, the Deserter, the Bureaucrat, the Missionary, the Compromiser, and the Autocrat, respectively. 2) The level of public participation in local development in four dimensions was overall at a high level in a respective order as follows: receiving benefit, decision making, evaluating and performing. And 3) the leadership style of executives of local administrative organization for predicting the public participation in local development was the style of the missionary and the executive.