Abstract:
This study aimed to: 1) investigate servant leadership of school administrators under Phatthalung Primary Educational Service Area Office 1, and 2) explore the approach towards the development of servant leadership of school administrators under Phatthalung Primary Educational Service Area Office 1.
Research samples included 285 teachers in schools under Phatthalung Primary Educational Service Area Office 1, in Academic Year 2018, derived by means of cluster random sampling. The interview's key informants consisted of five school administrators under Phatthalung Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. The instruments used for data collection were questionnaires and interview forms. The statistics used for the quantitative analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and content analysis.
The research results revealed that: 1) the overall servant leadership of school administrators was at a high level, and 2) guidelines towards the development of school administrators' servant leadership were as follows. (1) Understanding and empathy included reaching out to teachers and educational personnel's feelings, as well as understanding individual differences. (2) Maintaining a person consisted of genuine leadership, which led to confidence in leading an organization and success of an organization, constant self and professional development, (3) Realization included understanding other people, calming down, and controlling ones emotions, which led to practical adjustment to a situation, as well as fair solution. (4) Convincing included psychology for managing work, fostering leadership, and working motivation. (5) Conceptualization comprised creating and implementation of ones dreams, dare to speak and act, obvious outcomes, systematic schools work, application of administration principles, and believing in administrators ability to achieve an accomplishment. (6) Service-mind referred to systematic work, clear visualization of educational institutions, designing school administration to move forward towards quality education, development of teachers, and academic personnel through internal supervision projects, and (7) Personal development involving creating work motivation, continuous development of teachers and education personnel, self and professional development of teachers and educational personnel.