Application of the Buddhist principle of Sangahavatthu Affecting School administrators’ personnel management under Chanthaburi Primary Education Service Area Office 2
The Buddhist principle of Sangahavatthu is a principle that links people’s hearts together. The school administrators can apply this dharmic principle for their effective management. The purposes of this research were to: 1) study the school administrators’ application level of the Buddhist Principle of Sangahavatthu, 2) study the school administrators’ personnel management level, 3) study the relationship of the school administrators’ application of the Buddhist Principle of Sangahavatthu for personnel management, and 4) create a predictive equation for the school administrators’ application of the Buddhist Principle of Sangahavatthu for personnel management. The sample was a group of 332 teachers and educational personnel under Chanthaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 2. The sample size was calculated using Krejcie and Morgan’s table and stratified random sampling by using the school size as a random class. The research instrument was a five-level rating scale questionnaire with a reliability of the whole questionnaire at 0.95. The statistics used for data analysis were: mean, standard deviation, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and simple regression analysis.