The Influence of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Culture and Good Governance on Organizational Effectiveness of Local Administrative Organizations in Nakhon Phanom Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were threefold: 1) to study the level of transformational leadership, organizational culture, good governance, and effectiveness of local administrative organizations (henceforth LAOs) in Nakhon Phanom province; 2) to study the influences of structural relationships of transformational leadership, organizational culture, and good governance on the effectiveness of LAOs in Nakhon Phanom province; and 3) to explore ways to enhance the transformational leadership, organizational culture, good governance, and effectiveness of LAOs in Nakhon Phanom province. The samples were 377 executives and staff members selected through a stratified random sampling from 104 LAOs across Nakhon Phanom province in the fiscal year 2015. Out of the 377 samples, 12 were conveniently selected for an indepth interview. A questionnaire with statements of five Likert-type rating scales was used to collect the quantitative data, and a structured interview was used to collect the quantitative data. The statistical tools used for analyzing the quantitative data included descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation, and path analysis. Content analysis was performed to analyze the quantitative data from the in-depth interview. The results were as follows: 1) transformational leadership, organizational culture, good governance, and effectiveness of the LAOs in Nakhon Phanom province were at a high level; 2)transformational leadership, organizational culture, and good governance had the direct effects on the effectiveness of the LAOs, the variables with indirect effects were transformational leadership and organizational culture, and the proposed structural equation model comprising four factors-transformational leadership, organizational culture, good governance, and effectiveness of the LAOs in Nakhon Phanom province-had goodness of fit with the empirical data; and 3) transformational leadership could be enhanced through intellectual stimulation, organizational culture through adaptability and mission-oriented cultures, and good governance through accountability and cost-effectiveness. The three causal factors could account for 33 per cent of the effectiveness of the LAOs in Nakhon Phanom province.