Abstract
This study was descriptive research to study the job competency of the Basic Educational Institution Board (BEIB) in schools with different performances, to study factors relating to the work competency of the BEIBs and to propose guidelines to improve their work competency. This research used group interview in 4 BEIBs with high performance and 3 BEIBs with low performance. Meetings: and other related functions of the BEIDs were observed to find features of real performance. Documents such as meeting reports, plans and school projects were collected. The study found that the BEIBs with high performance had high competency in every issue and the BEIBs with low performance had low competency in knowledge of curriculums, school budgeting systems, personnel administration systems, educational policy and plans, promotion of community strength and building relations with other institutions. But the low performane BEIBs were poorly equipped with knowledge of organizing the learning process, especially on the learning-centered approach, educational quality assurance, financial administration systems and fund raising, accounting, materials and property; for work competencies of skill, they were well equipped with skills related to data collection and analysis, counseling, creativity, and analytical thinking, but they had little competency in work skills related to influencing others, building relations, listening, coordination and association, cooperation, handling conflicts, bonding, common decision-making, and improving their intuition together; for work competency of attitude, they had good attitudes, same as the high performance group. The results were related to 3 factors: 1) school contests i.e. school personnel, school functions and school performance; 2) the backgrounds of the BEIBs i.e. education, work experience and roles in the community; 3) working process of the BEIBs i.e. building a team, knowledge, skills and attitudes transferred, administrative context and continuous learning culture. So, the proposed guidelines for improving the functional competencies of the BEIBs must be learning processes that involve working together to improve the BEIBs competencies and determination in transferring work knowledge, skills and experiences through an action learning approach.
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