Abstract:
The purposes of this research are 1) to specify the competency model and to examine the proposed competency mode of educational institution administrators, the Royal Thai Army Academy Branch Schools. The notion of specifying competency model is applied to establish competency model of each job title. The population consists of 12 educational institution administrators from the Royal Thai Army Academy Branch Schools, 5 Royal Thai Army supervisors, and 25 stakeholders of the schools. The research methodology includes 6 steps as follows: 1) ascertain general background of these 22 schools including their philosophy, vision, and mission, 2) conduct job analysis to categorize job description, 3) ascertain the information concerning subject matters, skills and behavioral characteristics, which are required for the administrators, 4) draft the preliminary competency model, 5) design the competency structure and its details including competency title, its definition, its level and its behavioral indicators, and 6) examine the competency model in terms of its content structure and language. The research findings are as follows; 12 items of ascertaining knowledge including subject matters, skills and behavioral characteristics required for the administrators, 27 items of skills, and 21 items of behavioral characteristics. The results of assimilating these findings lead to 7 prototype competency models, after examining these models 5 of which are found consistency and reliable, and these models are applied to design the structure and details of the competencies comprising competency title, its definition, and its behavioral characteristics. The results of assessing the structure and details the competencies in terms of their subject matters and language reveal the following competencies; 1. Integrity, which is defined as the ability to employ their integrity together with law and military disciplines in self-disciplining, manpower managing, and administrating, and these lead to the role model of military institutions, societies and faith in the profession. 2. Resource Management Expertise, which is defined as the ability to administer and manage both internal and external resources (budget, personnel, data, technology and other equipments), and to efficiently allocate the resources to serve the vision, mission, and objectives of each educational institution. 3. Education Management, which is defined as the ability to administer and manage, encourage, and support the quality education management enabling learners to learn and develop themselves to their full capacity with desired characteristics and permanent changes in their behavioral characteristics. 4. Leadership, which is defined as the ability to lead personnel, and organization, specify vision, objectives and strategies, create innovation, manage databases and knowledge, create good relationship, and motivate with the emphasis on the rules of moral and good governance leading to changes in quality education development.
5. Public Relation Management and Local Relations, which is defined as the ability to administer and manage, encourage, and support public relation affairs and to build good relations with local with the purposes of academic services