Factors Affecting Innovative Leadership under the Nakhonnayok Primary Educational Service Area Office

Abstract

The  research aims 1) to  factors affecting innovative leadership in the 21^st century of school administrators 2) to the levels of transformational leadership, creativity, and administrative support factors 3) to study the relationship between transformational leadership, creativity, and administrative support factors with innovative leadership in the 21^st century of school administrators; and 4) to create prediction equations for innovative leadership in the 21^st century of school administrators. The sample consisted of 291 school administrators and teachers under Nakhonnayok Primary Educational Service Area Office, selected by stratified random sampling. The research instrument was a 5-level rating scale questionnaire. The statistics used for data analysis were mean (M), standard deviation (SD), Pearson's correlation coefficient, multiple regression analysis, and stepwise multiple regression analysis.
The research findings were as follows: 1) Factors affecting innovative leadership in the 21^st century of school administrators included transformational leadership, creativity, and administrative support factors.
2) Overall and in each aspect, the levels of transformational leadership, creativity, and administrative support factors were at a high level. 3) Transformational leadership factors, creativity factors, and administrative support factors showed a positive correlation with innovative leadership in the 21^st century of school administrators at a relatively high level overall and in each aspect. 4) The predictor variables could predict innovative leadership in the 21^st century of school administrators in the following order: administrative support factors (X₃), creativity factors (X₂), and transformational leadership factors (X₁), with a combined predictive power of 25.60%. The raw score prediction equation was:
Ŷ = 0.402(X₃) + 0.380(X₂) + 0.184(X₁), and the standardized score prediction equation was:
Ẑ = 0.325(Z₃) + 0.284(Z₂) + 0.178(Z₁)