The Development of Local Government leaders in Samutprakan province to Move forward to AEC sustainably

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study the development of the communicative language and information technology skills of Samutprakan’slocal government organization leaders to move forward AEC sustainably. This study employed mix methodology including both qualitative and quantitative research approach.

The sample consisted of 212 local government leaders from 49 organizations.  The research instrument was a rating-scale questionnaires and unstructured in-depth interview. Frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation (S.D.),t-test, f-test, and ANOVA were employed in the data analysis.

The study result revealed as followed:

1.On the need for developing communicative skills, (1) On English language skills, levels of need in developing listening, speaking, reading, and  reading skills were high. Most of the respondent wished to develop listening skills because of vocabulary limitations to expression, situational use of words, and terminology limitations.(2) On Thai language and cultural skills, levels of need in developing speaking, writing, listening and reading skills were moderate. The respondent’s need included listening for updating domestic news, public speaking, writing and reading electronic letter.

1. On the need for developing information technology usage skills, levels of need in developing data searching, data analysis, data communication and data collection skills were moderate. The main problems of the respondents were online data searching, Excel program usage for analysis, group chat, and data restoring.

3.The result of the study revealed that there were no statistically significant difference between males and females. In general, there were statistically significant differences at the .05 level of all components in terms of the need for developing communicative skills, English skills, Thai language and cultural skills and Information technology usage skills.

The foregoing conclusion is recommended to employ as a guideline for development communicative English skills for the Samutprakan’s local government to ensure that the leaders are able to achieve their self-development and to increase organizational development in order to improve organizational effectiveness to reach for sustainability.