THE TEMPLE MANAGING EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF ABBOTS IN PRACHUAKHIRIKHAN PROVINCE

Abstract

Objectives of this research article were to analyze the general condition, process and to present the development of the temple effective management.  Methodology was the mixed methods; the qualitative research collected data from 18 key informants by in-depth-interview and 10 participants in focus group discussion and analyzed data by content descriptive interpretation. The quantitative method collected data from 310 samples and analyzed data with frequency, percentiles, means and standard deviation, SD.

The research findings were as follow; 1. The general condition of temple management efficiency development of abbots in Prachuapkhirikhan Province by overall, had the good practice level with an average of X=3.81, S.D.= .296, 2. The related factors affecting the temple management of abbots in Prachuapkhirikhan Province were found that efficiency development had the relations to temple management along with the duty of the temple abbots positively at significantly statistical level at 0.01 and the Dhamma principle of four powers or Pala IV had the related factors to temple management efficiency development of abbots at significantly statistics at 0.01 level as well. 3. The temple management efficiency development of abbots in Prachuapkhirikhan Province had the indicators in four aspects, they were: (1) quality of work, (2) quantity of work, (3) time spending (4) budget.