The Characteristics of Professional Administrators that Affect Motivation of Teacher Under Phayao Primary Educational Service Area Office 1

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the characteristics of professional school administrators, to study the motivation for teacher work in schools and to study the characteristics of professional administrators that affect the motivation of teachers under Phayao primary educational service area office 1. Using quantitative research methods. The population was 1,093 teachers in schools under Phayao primary educational service area office 1. The sample consisted of 260 teachers in schools under Phayao Primary Educational service area office 1. The instrument used in the research was a questionnaire to analyze data with statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment of correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression analysis.

The results showed that; 1. Characteristics of professional school administrators under Phayao primary educational service area office 1, in overall and in each level, at a high level in descending order including; 1) have the right personality to be an executive 2) take creative initiative to develop all aspects 3) have skills in command diagnosis 4) have vision, can set policies, and plan the strategy appropriately. 5) Being a leader of change and development, 6) having academic knowledge and management science, and 7) using the morality and ethics system to consider the work. 2. Motivation of teacher work in schools under Phayao primary Educational service area office 1, in overall and in each level, at a high level in descending order including; 1) Success at work 2) responsibility 3) Job characteristics 4) Recognition and 5) Career advancement. 3. Characteristics of professional administrators affecting teachers' motivation under Phayao primary educational service area office 1, overall, 45.3 percent of the teachers' work motivation can be predicted with 3 aspects, including; 1) have academic knowledge, management science 2) have skills in command diagnosis, and 3) have vision, can set policies, and plan the strategy appropriately. By obtaining the raw score prediction equation and the forecasting equation in the form of standard scores as follows; Y^{^} = 2.032 + 0.355(X₄) + 0.331(X₇) -0.188(X₆) and  Z^{^}  = 0.470Z_x4 + 0.507Z_x7 – 0.278Z_x6.