QUALITY CULTURE AFFECTING HIGH-PERFORMANCE ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS UNDER NAKHON PHANOM PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE 2

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1) examine the levels of quality culture and high-performance organization of schools, 2) compare quality culture and high-performance organization classified by position and school size, and 3) investigate the quality culture affecting the high-performance organization of schools under the Nakhon Phanom Primary Educational Service Area Office 2. The sample group consisted of 265 school administrators and teachers, obtained through stratified random sampling. The research instrument was a rating scale questionnaire with a total reliability coefficient of .90. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the t-test, one-way ANOVA, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The findings revealed that: 1) Overall, the quality culture and the high-performance organization of the schools were at a high level. 2) There were no significant differences in opinions between administrators and teachers. However, schools of different sizes showed statistically significant differences in high-performance organization at the .05 level, with large-sized schools having a higher mean score than medium and small-sized schools, respectively. 3) Three dimensions of quality culture—namely, team development and personnel potential, strategic leadership, and value creation and motivation for success—could jointly predict the high-performance organization with an explanatory power of 66.80% (R²= .668) at the .01 level of statistical significance.