Abstract:
The purposes of this study were : 1) to investigate the leadership styleofadministrators in basic education
schools under Nakhon Phanom Province, 2) to investigate theconflict management ofadministrators in basic
education schools under Nakhon Phanom Province, 3) to compare the leadership style and the conflict
management of administrators in basic education schools under Nakhon Phanom Province classified according
to status and school classes, 4) to examine the relationship between leadership styles and conflict management
of administrators in basic education schools under Nakhon Phanom Province, and 5) toaspect individualized the
conflict management of administrators. A sample of studyselected by stratified random sampling comprised 319
school administrators. The instrument used was a 5-rating scale questionnaire whose discrimination power values
ranged between 0.24 and 0.70andreliability value was 0.90Statistics used to analyze data werepercentage, mean,
standard deviation, one way ANOVA, simple correlation, and multiple regressionanalysis.
The result of this study were as follows : 1) the leadership style of administrators in basic education schools
under Nakhon Phanom Province, as a whole , was a related; 2) the conflict management of administrators in basic
education schools under Nakhon Phanom Province, as a whole , was by using a collaboration;3) to compare the
leadership style classified according to status and school classes by overall and individual aspect of leadership styles
of primary school, expand opportunities school and high school were significantly different at the .05 level. The
primary school appeared more than those of expand opportunities school and high school. The small size school
appeared more than those of medium and large size; to compare the conflict management classified according
to status and school classes by overall and individual aspect of conflict management of primary school, expand
opportunities school and high school were significantly different at the .05 level. The primary school appeared
more than those of expand opportunities school and high school; 4) There were a positive relationship between
leadership styles and conflict management of administrators were significantly different at the .01 level; 5) The
leadership styles in the aspect of individualized separated, dedicated and related styles could statistical significant
predict conflict management were significantly different at the .01 level.