Relationship Between Leadership of Administrators and Organization Climate of City Municipalities Officers in Chonburi Province

Abstract

   The objectives of the research are 1) to study leadership of the executive administrators, 2) to examine the organizational climate in the city municipality offices, and 3) to investigate the relationship between leadership and the organizational climate in the city municipality offices in Chonburi. This study is a quantitative research. The population and sample group consisted of 330 officers working in 2 city municipality offices in Chonburi province, which are Laem Chabang city municipality office and Chaopraya Surasak city municipality office. The research instrument was a 5-level scale questionnaire. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics with statistic values, numbers, percentage, mean and standard deviation statistical values. The hypothesis was tested by Pearson's correlation statistics. The research results showed that 1) the overall leadership is ranged in the high level, and each aspect is entirely ranged in the high level including ideological influence aspect, Inspiration creating aspect, individuality consideration aspect, and cognitive stimulation respectively; 2) the overall organizational climate is ranged at the high level, and each aspect is all ranged at the high level including warmth giving and support aspect, decision-making participation aspect, and the building of mutual trust aspect respectively; 3) there is a moderate relationship between leadership and the organizational climate in the city municipality offices in Chonburi (r = .615) at .01 significance value. The most closely related pair was leadership in individuality consideration and organizational climate in decision-making participation (r = .778), followed by leadership in individuality consideration and organizational climate in warmth giving and support (r = .586), and leadership in cognitive stimulation and organizational climate in decision-making participation (r = .560).