Somkiet Woraprawat. Policy and management of Bangkok metropolitan administration and constructivist community leaders for community development. Doctoral Degree(Public Policy and Public Management). Mahidol University. Mahidol University Library and Knowledge Center. : Mahidol University, 2018.
Policy and management of Bangkok metropolitan administration and constructivist community leaders for community development
Abstract:
This study was a multi-method research aimed to 1) study the characteristics and expressions of the constructivist leadership, 2) identify the factors and the influential level of constructivist leadership and constructivist community, 3) explore the policy and community developing management that affect the community leaders as well as various community development including the participation of the community leaders and 4) examine the correspondence of the model and the index of the constructivist leadership of the community leaders developed from the empirical data under the quantitative and qualitative research approaches, A questionnaire was employed in the quantitative study, while the documentary study was conducted in the qualitative research approach, along with an in-depth interview, focused group interview, and a case study of 6 communities. It was revealed that, holistically, the characteristics and expressions of the constructivist leadership of the community leaders was at a high level ( x = 4.46) with the deviation of 0.60. The study on the factors and the influential levels showed that the community problem, the inspiration within the community, the community conflict, and the interaction of the community leaders affected the constructivist leadership of the community at a statistically significant level of 0.001 with the Multiple Correlation Coefficient value of (R2) 0.630. The aforementioned influences affected the constructivist leadership of the community leaders at 63.00% and this could forecast the constructivist leadership up to 63.00% with the standard deviation of ± 0.42. The study also revealed that policy and community development management was at a high level and it affected the community development, the study on the correspondence of the model and the index of the constructivist leadership of the community leaders developed from the empirical data, showed a correspondence with the p-value at 0.650.