Creative Leadership of School Administrators Affecting Learning Organization of School Under the Office of The Secondary Educational Service Area Office SiSaket Yasothon

Abstract

This research consists purposes were 1. to examine the level of creative leadership of school administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Si Sa Ket Yasothon 2. to investigate the learning organization characteristics of schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Si Sa Ket–Yasothon 3. to explore the relationship between administrators’ creative leadership and the learning organization characteristics of schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Si Sa Ket Yasothon and 4. to determine the aspects of administrators’ creative leadership that influence the development of schools as learning organizations under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Si Sa Ket Yasothon. This study employed a quantitative research design. The research instrument was a questionnaire. The sample consisted of 144 school administrators under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Si Sa Ket Yasothon. The sample size was determined using the Krejcie and Morgan (1970) sample size table. Stratified random sampling with proportional allocation according to school size was used. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, including percentage, mean and standard deviation, as well as Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression analysis. The results revealed that 1) The overall level of creative leadership among school administrators was at the highest level (x̄ = 4.78, S.D. = 0.22) 2) The overall level of schools functioning as learning organizations was also at the highest level (x̄ = 4.82, S.D. = 0.26) 3) Creative leadership showed a moderate positive correlation with schools’ status as learning organizations (r = 0.544), which was statistically significant at the .01 level and 4) Creative leadership jointly predicted schools’ development as learning organizations at 39 percent of the variance explained. The strongest predictive variables were teamwork collaboration and trust. The standardized regression equation can be written as Z′ = −0.118Z₁ + 0.557Z₂ − 0.089Z₃ + 0.345Z₄