Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to 1) study the factors of the creative thinking in marketing which were appropriate and consistent with marketing principles for diploma students majoring in marketing, 2) develop a training program to develop creative thinking in marketing for diploma students majoring in marketing, and 3) study the results of implementing the training program to develop creative thinking in marketing for diploma students majoring in marketing. This research consisted of 3 phases: Phase 1. Study the factors of the creative thinking for diploma students majoring in marketing. The sample consisted of 158 diploma students majoring in marketing from 6 universities or colleges in the first semester of academic year 2556 selected by cluster sampling. The research instrument was a rating scale questionnaire with the reliability of 0.937. The data were analyzed by factor analysis using a computer program. Phase 2: Develop a training program to develop creative thinking in marketing for diploma students majoring in marketing. The study was done by analyzing related theories, principles, concepts, documents and research areas, then synthesizing the model and evaluating the quality of the synthesized model. Phase 3: Study the results of implementing the training program to develop creative thinking in marketing for diploma students majoring in marketing. This phase was experimented on 20 diploma students, studying in the second semester of academic year 2556 of Rachamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi, selected by cluster sampling. The research instruments were 1) a measurement form of creative thinking in marketing and 2) a training program to develop creative thinking in marketing.The research findings were as follows:1. Phase 1,from the study of confirmatory factor analysis, creative thinking in marketing consisted of 4 factors which were 1) creative thinking, 2) fluent thinking, 3) flexible thinking, and 4) elaborative thinking. The marketing creative thinking model of diploma students majoring in marketing fitted the empirical data and the weight of all individual areas of factors was positive with statistical significance at the level of 0.05 and could measure the factors of creative thinking in marketing for diploma students.2.Phase 2, the development of a training program to develop creative thinking in marketing was obtained from studying and analyzing the fundamental information, drafting of the training program, and building the training program. The training program consisted of 7 factors which were: 1) concepts, principles and reasons, 2) fundamental concepts, 3) objectives, 4) content structure of the training program which included schedule 1 and 2. 5) procedure of learning activities and time in training. There were 5 stages of learning activities: 1, orientation and introduction 2, imagination and presentation using multi-media and computer, 3) cooperative learning, 4) activity presentation, 5) measurement and evaluation, 6) learning materials and equipment used in training and 7) measurement and evaluation of the training program.3. Phase 3, from the study of the results of implementing the training program to develop creative thinking in marketing for diploma students majoring in marketing, it was found that the means after the experiment were higher than those before the experiment with statistical significance at the level of 0.05. The training program to develop creative thinking in marketing for diploma students majoring in marketing had the efficiency that met the specified criteria and was able to be implemented in the training for developing the creative thinking in marketin