THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AND LEARNING ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOLS UNDER THE SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE PHETCHABUN

Abstract

This research purposes were to 1) study the innovative leadership of school administrators, 2) study learning organization of schools and 3) study the relationship between the innovative leadership of school administrators and learning organization of schools. The sample, yielding a total of 306 participants, was 39 school administrators and 267 teachers. The sample was determined according to the Krejcie and Morgan and using the stratified random sampling. The instrument in this research was a questionnaire about the relationship between the innovative leadership of school administrators and learning organization of schools. The statistics that were used in this research were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson’ Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The results showed that:

1. The innovative leadership of school administrators in overall was at a high level. When considering in each aspect, it was found that the aspect with the highest average was vision and strategy innovation, followed by innovative thinking skills, risk management the lowest average was creating an atmosphere of innovative. 2. Learning organization of schools in overall was at a high level. When considering each aspect, it was found that the aspect with the highest average was the aspect of the systematic thinking, followed by shared vision, mental model and team learning. The aspect with the lowest average was personal mastery. 3. The relationship between the innovative leadership of school administrators and learning organization of schools in overall was a positive relationship with statistical significance at the .01 level. It was at very high level (r =.813**).