BUDDHIST SOLUTIONS TO POLITICAL PROBLEMS IN ORGANIZATIONS: THE CASE OF THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM ADMINISTRATION

Abstract

This article presented the Buddhist solution to political process problems in organizations that affected the curriculum administration process of the school administrators, which was the key to driving education to quality, consists of 6 parts: 1) the concept of politics in the organization at 3 levels: individual, group and agency level, 2) the political theory that was the criteria or rules reflecting political behavior, 3) the political theory in the organization which related to powers, including dutiful power, control power, power to reward or punish, referral power and authority as an expert, 4) the concept of school curriculum administration as a tool to effective education management achieving the objectives, 5) the political problems in educational institutions that affected the administration of the school curriculum, there were politics within and outside school, 6) Buddhist ways to solve political problems in educational institutions which aimed to solve problem of people by resolving the cause of the conflict both mentally and intellectual and both outside and within oneself with peaceful way, namely Saṅgahavatthu 4 and Aparihaniyadhamma 7