Development of the Office of the Administrative Courts towards High Performance Organization

Abstract

          This study were intended to investigate the following issues: (1) the recent progress of the Office of the  Administrative Courts; (2) common attributes essential for the development of the offices of the courts in Thailand towards high performance organizations; (3) a comparison between the recent progress of the Office of the Administrative Courts and common attributes essential for the management in high performance offices of the courts; and (4) develop guidelines for organization management to the highest performance office of the courts. In this regard, the Delphi technique was employed to seek for conformity in opinions on common attributes essential for the management in the offices of the courts in Thailand expressed by 17 key informants such as Presidents of the Court of Justice, the Administrative Court, and the Constitutional Court, and Secretaries-General and Deputy Secretaries-General in charge of the management within the court offices as well as university lecturers. The findings of this research revealed that the managerial progress of the Office of the Administrative Courts has been continuously developed. Nevertheless, some factors were unable to yield tangible results since they lacked of clear and relevant measures to be taken. In addition, key factors of common attributes towards continuous progress of high performance offices of the courts were clear practices and concrete policies, emphasis of adaptation and organizational involvement, personnel competency development and morale improvement as well.