The success factors of vocational education management in private enterprises

Abstract

               The objectives of this research were to: 1) study success factors of vocational education management in Private Enterprises; 2) study guidelines for success of vocational education management in private enterprises. This research was conducted by using mixed method. The populations used in this research were 18 administrators, 309 teachers, 5,571 students, and 5,571 parents from five educational institutions. Research instruments used in this research were semi-structured interview conducted with 5 administrators, 30 students, 30 parents and questionnaires for 327 administrators and teachers. There were 239 complete questionnaires returned to the researcher calculated to be 73.08%. The results showed that there were seven success factors effecting the vocational education managed by private enterprises including: 1) management on teachers who were performing their duties in each educational institute; 2) strategic management; 3) marketing communication; 4) courses and instructional management; 5) occupational motivation; 6) environment facilitating learning;  and 7) human resource management. The 14 guidelines for promoting vocational education management in private enterprises was proposed in the study. It is hoped that 1) administrators of educational institutes must have true knowledge and understanding on organization; 2) building practices of culture that was mutual agreement; 3) consisted of system for selecting teachers in order to gain skillful teachers on organizational operation, etc.