10Feb 2019

THE MANAGEMENT MODEL OF BUDDHIST ORGANIZATIONSIN THAI SOCIETY.

  • Doctoral Candidate, California University FCE, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • Associate Professor, California University FCE, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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The purposes of this research were 1) to study the management of Buddhist organizations in Thai society, and 2) to present the management model of Buddhist organizations in Thai society. The researcher applied quantitative research methods in conducting this research. The research results show that most respondents agreed with management of Buddhist organizations in Thai society at the highest level. In particular, International Organizational Management had the highest mean score, followed by Public Welfare, Non-Profit Organization, and Good Governance respectively.The hypotheses results show that with regard to the correlation between the components of management of Buddhist organizations in Thai society, the components had the relationship with the statistical significance at the level of .01.With regard to the statistics to evaluate the concordance of the model after the modification indices, the results show that Chi-square Probability Level was .057, CMIN/DF was 1.111, GFI was .948, and RMSEA was .015. This means the management model of Buddhist organizations in Thai society was relevant to the empirical data.


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[NapoldechManilangca, Ornpapha Chutikorntaweesin and Thuchapon Yodthong. (2019); THE MANAGEMENT MODEL OF BUDDHIST ORGANIZATIONSIN THAI SOCIETY. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 7 (Feb). 210-218] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Dr. Ornpapha Chutikorntaweesin
Associate Professor, California University FCE, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/8478      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/8478