Budget Management Conditions Based on Good Governance Principles of School Administrators in the Schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Offices in Sisaket and Yasothon

Abstract

The objectives of the research were to study budget management conditions based on good governance principles of school administrators, compare the opinions of the school administrators and the teachers working for the position budgets, the position experiences, and the school sizes, and study problems and guidelines for developing the budget management based on the good governance principles of the school administrators  in the schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Offices in Sisaket and Yasothon. The samples used in the research were 83 school administrators and 249 teachers working for the budgets in a total of 332 people. The researchers used all of the population to be the target group in the study. The instruments used to collect data were a five-rating scale questionnaire and an open-ended questionnaire with the reliability of 0.969. The statistics used to analyze data were frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. In the comparison of the difference between the variables, the researchers used the analytical statistics: t-test, F-test, and pair comparison by using Scheffe’s method.

The research findings were as follows.

1. The management conditions based on the good governance principles of the school administrators in the schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Offices in Sisaket and Yasothon in the overall was at the highest level. The aspect with the highest mean score was the participatory principles.
2. The findings of the comparison of the opinions of the school administrators and the teachers working for the budgets towards the budget management conditions based on the good governance principles of the school administrators in the schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Offices in Sisaket and Yasothon in the overall showed that the position experiences were different with the statistical significance at the level of .01 while the position and the school sizes were not different.

    3. The problems and the guidelines for developing the budget management conditions based on the good governance principles of the school administrators in the schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Offices in Sisaket and Yasothon were found that the most problems were coursed from the staff lacking of awareness in using resources and budgets valuably in the schools. The guidelines for developing, the school administrators proposed that the activities should be arranged to create understanding and stimulating the staff in using the resources and the budgets valuably and effectively at the highest level.