Transformational Leadership and Management Effectiveness of Sub-district Municipality Administrators in Sakon Nakhon Province Area

Abstract

The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate a degree of transformational leadership and alevelof managementeffectivenessof sub-district municipality
administrators in Sakon Nakhon province, 2) to examine the relationship between
transformational leadership and management effectivenessof sub-district municipality administrators in Sakon Nakhon province, 3) to seek guidelines to develop both
transformational leadership andmanagementeffectivenessof sub-districtmunicipality
administrators inSakon Nakhon province. A sampleused instudy was56administrators
of sub-district municipalities intheSakon Nakhon provincearea.Theinstrumentused
forcollecting data wasa questionnaire.Statisticsused in dataanalysis werefrequency,
percentageand meanand statisticsused inhypothesis testing werePearson’s product
moment correlation coefficient.
Findings of the study were as follows.
1. Transformational leadership of sub-district municipality administrators in
the Sakon Nakhon province area as a whole was at moderate level. Considering it by
aspect, theaspect that gained thehighest meanscore wasof giving importancetothe
individual in which the administrators had transformational leadership at high level.
The aspect of secondary rank was of creating inspiration in which they had transformational leadership at high level. The aspect that gained the lowest mean score was

level. Management effectiveness of sub-district municipality administrators in the
Sakon Nakhon province area as a whole was at high level. Considering it by aspect,
all of the aspects were at high level. The aspect that gained the highest mean score
was of effectiveness in accordance with the plan of performing government service.
Theaspectof secondaryrank wasofefficiencyof performing government service.The
aspect that gained the lowest mean score was of organizational development.
2. The overall transformational leadership was significantly related to management effectiveness of sub-district municipality administrators in Sakon Nakhon
province as a whole at the .05 level by having a positive relationship (r = 0.737) at
moderate degree.
3. The guidelines to develop transformational leadership of sub-district
municipality administrators intheSakon Nakhon provincearea comprise2 aspects: 1)
the aspect of having an ideal influence, and 2) the aspect of intellectual stimulation;
and the guidelines to develop management effectiveness comprise 1 aspect,namely
the aspect of organizational development
of intellectual stimulationin whichtheyhad transformational leadership at moderate