Abstract:
To 1) investigate the implementation stats and problem of quality management for educational service area offices, 2) find a strategy for problem solution of quality management for educational service area offices and 3) develop a total quality management system for educational service area offices. Data were collected using questionnaires, interviews of experts, a focus group discussion, and system evaluation by experts. The key findings were as follows: 1) 63.33% of educational service area offices implemented the quality management system while 36.77% did not. Overall, the problem for implementation were scored high, with the average value of 3.50. The highest score of 3.63 was found for implementation process. 2) the strategy to solve the problems covered 14 items. 3) The total quality management system for educational service area offices was process focused consisting of three parts: 1) principle and concept; 2) basic components of a systems, and 3) guideline and conditions towards success. The principle and concept included the systems principle, concepts and its objectives. The basic component of system included 4 main components and 17 subcomponents. The 4 main components were input, process, product and feedback. The input had 4 subcomponents: staff, budget, office and materials, and information technology. The process had 9 subcomponents: an arrangement of institutional structure, determination of a quality policy, planning, plan implementation, teamwork, quality tool adoption, monitoring and evaluation, reporting, and verifying. For the product, there were 4 subcomponents: the success in implementation of the plan, satisfaction of customers, will and courage of staff, effectiveness of resource utilization. The 3rd part, guidelines and conditions of success for system implementation, consisted of 4 stages: preparation, execution, evaluation, and result summary and reporting. The conditions of success consisted of 10 items: leadership of the leaders, training, teamworking, facilitation, participation, provision of advice, quality tool adoption, binding to the agreed commitments, measuring and evaluation, as well as reporting.