A Study of Participation in Establishing Annual Strategic Plan of Christian University of Thailand Personnel

Abstract

          Participation in working and planning projects or activities of the section has a direct effect on the improvement of the efficiency of the overall performance and the spirit of employees in the organization, which can lead to more acceptance and better relationship between individuals and lead to changes in the same direction. A Study of Participation in Establishing Annual Strategic Plan of Christian University of Thailand aimed to study the degree of participation, problems and suggestions including guidelines for resolving problems in establishing such annual strategic plan of staff of Christian University of Thailand. The period of this study was from July 2009 to December 2010, The data was collected by submitting questionnaires to 159 samples which were the target group within the university and the statistics used including frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation.

          The results of this study revealed that the samples participated in establishing the annual strategic plan in all aspects at the moderate level (x̄ =3.22,S.D.=073).When separately considered each aspect, the samples participated in acting upon the strategic plan as the first priority (x̄ =3.31 ,S.D.=074). The second priority was to establish the annual strategic plan (x̄ =3.28,S.D.=074). The third priority was to follow up the plan evaluation (x̄ =3.17 ,S.D.=073) and the planning of the annual strategic plan was considered to be the fourth priority (x̄ =3.14,S.D.=073).

          The results also revealed problems and barriers in establishing such strategic action plan which were the little understanding about the strategic action plan of the lower level administrators and the limited amount of time for meeting to clarify the establishing and planning of the strategic action plan. Moreover, faculty members and staff of the colleges and academic support sections had not seriously studied on the university's strategies which were the important issues, so they could not take those strategies into concrete action. Besides, the evaluation of the action plan which exceeded the time frame of the university was also mentioned in this study.

          Therefore, the analysis of factors that would limit in establishing the strategic action plan of each section was required. Also handbook was needed in order clarify how to write the action plan and  the meeting to raise the awareness in preparation and implementation of action plan by experts was suggested. There should be a need to emphasize the importance of monitoring and evaluating the achievement according to the indicators and criteria to meet the goals of the university by a specified time frame.