A Study of Operational Guidelines for Risk Reduction of Schools under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 39

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study operational guidelines for risk reduction of schools under the secondary educational service area office 39.The informants were 9 experts at least master’s degree graduation and ten-year experience, consisting of experts in educational administration, internal control, and risk management. The research instrument was a structured interview. The data analysis was the content analysis. The results indicated that the operational guidelines for risk reduction of schools under the secondary educational service area office 39 on the overall found that the school risk management should operate as  follows: 1) should realize the importance of the risk management, 2) should give the staff knowledge and understanding of the risk management, 3) should manipulate the school risk data, 4) should analyze the school risk causes, 5) should plan, operate, and follow up the school risk management, 6) should make school stakeholders participate in brainstorming. When considering each step, it was found that there were five operational guidelines for the school risk reduction as follows: 1) issue 1: analyzing the future risk affecting objectives, goals, and indicators of the risk management, 2) issue 2: collecting risk data on strategy, operation, finance, and regulation,  3) issue 3: anticipating the risk on strategy, operation, finance, and regulation,  4) issue 4:transferring the school risk strategy on operation, finance, and regulation,  5) issue 5: following up the risk management continuously and systematically.