Development of a Learning Organization Model for the Opportunity Expansion Schools under the Nakhon Si Thammarat Primary Education Service Area Office 2

Abstract

The objectives of the research were: 1) to study the conditions of the learningorganizations, 2) to analyze the main components of the learning organization model, 3) to develop the learning organization model, and 4) to examine the learning organization model in the educational opportunity extension schools under the Nakhon Si Thammarat Primary Educational Service Area Office 2. The research methodology was conducted as a mixed methods research. The samples were 474 participants randomized by simple random sampling from school administrators and teachers from the educational opportunity extension schools under the Nakhon Si Thammarat Primary Educational Service Area Office 2. The research instruments were a document analysis form, an interview form, a questionnaire, and a connoisseurship form. The statistics were mean, standard deviation, factor analysis, and content analysis.

The research findings were found as follows.

1.The conditions of the learning organizations in the educational opportunity

extension schools under the Nakhon Si Thammarat Primary Educational Service Area Office 2 in the overall were at a high level.

1. The main components of the learning organization model consisted of 7 components: 1) planning the targets in the future consisting of 2 subcomponents: regulating visions, missions, and targets and administration strategies for managing organizations, 2) developing human resources consisting of 3 subcomponents: learning, learning disciplines, and learning management, 3) having suitable organization structures consisting of 2 subcomponents: managing the organization structures and assigning works and cooperating works, 4) information technology consisting of 2 subcomponents: learning technology and learning management technology, 5) examining working processes consisting of 2 subcomponents: monitoring working and evaluating working performance, 6) leadership of the administrators consisting of 2 subcomponents: colleague and transformation leadership, and 7) an environmental analysis consisting of 2 subcomponents: the internal and external environmental analysis.
2. The learning organization model consisted of 7 parts: the name, the background, the objectives, the principles, the components, the guidelines for evaluating the model, and the key success factors.
3. The findings of the examination of the learning organization model showed that the

experts agreed that the learning organization model was correct, appropriate, possible, and beneficial at a high level.