Kanrawee Wichaipa. The study of competency and development guidelines of disaster prevention and mitigation officers in local administration organizations . Doctoral Degree(Public Policy and Public Management). Mahidol University. Mahidol University Library and Knowledge Center. : Mahidol University, 2020.
The study of competency and development guidelines of disaster prevention and mitigation officers in local administration organizations
Abstract:
The Study of Competency and Development Guidelines of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Officers in Local administration Organizations aimed to study and develop functional competency of disaster prevention and mitigation personnel and hazard specific competency of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Officers from Floods, Storms, and Landslides. This led to creating a method to develop personnel following the functional competency and hazard specific competency of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Officers in Thailand Local Administration. This study is a qualitative research using the Delphi technique via researching documents, in-depth interviews and group discussions which were conducted by doing content analysis. After that, the data was confirmed by using the Delphi technique. According to the study, the functional competency of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Officers included: 1) understanding of laws regulations and authority 2) proactivity to analyze and evaluate situations professionally 3) networking in operations and public and community relations. The hazard specific competency of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Officers for floods, storms, and landslides included: 1) movement and evacuation of victims 2) the art of persuasion for management in the area 3) specialization in demolition of buildings and obstructions. The competency indicators were divided into 5 levels depending on positions of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Officers in Thailand Local Administration. The results showed that there is a distinctive value between Quartile 1 and Quartile 3 if the quartile range values not over 1.50. It means that experts' opinions through the competency were conformed. The median and mode of each competency have differences, not over 1.00. It shows that experts' opinions through the competency were conformed. Moreover, experts mostly agree that the median is 4.5 and over. Additionally, researchers created a method to develop personnel following the functional competency of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Officers in the department of local administration by a tool called Training Road Map (TRM) which is the map of training development and self-study of each competency. The map was an acquired opinions by the leader of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Officers, the trainer and the local administrator. The researchers intended to present through the principle of creating freedom of department of local administration. The policy proposal is to let the personnel development institution of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation arrange a course for training that corresponds to functional competency and hazard specific competency for the ability to develop personnel in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation in each different risk area. Similarly, the practical proposal is choosing the competency of the department of local administration should include the competency that is proper for that department of local administration for letting management and human resource development in the department of local administration be practical and suitable for the area.