The Relationship Between Good Governance Administration and Budget Management of School Administrators the Primary Educational Service Area Office, Samut Sakhon

Abstract

This research aimed to examine: 1) good governance administration, 2) budget management, and 3) the relationship between good governance administration and budget management among school administrators under the Samut Sakhon Primary Educational Service Area Office. The sample consisted of 322 school administrators and teachers within the jurisdiction. Data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed via a statistical software package to determine frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient.
The findings revealed that: first, the overall level of good governance administration was high; specifically, the efficiency principle yielded the highest mean score, followed by transparency, while participation and consensus-oriented principles received the lowest scores. Second, the overall budget management was also rated at a high level, with resource management and educational investment scoring the highest, followed by financial administration, and accounting administration scoring the lowest. Finally, a statistically significant relationship at the 0.01 level was found between good governance administration and budget management across all seven dimensions, ranked by correlation strength as follows: financial administration (Y5), resource management and investment (Y4), accounting administration (Y6), monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of expenditure and performance (Y3), supplies and asset administration (Y7), budget preparation and proposal (Y1), and budget allocation (Y2).