Abstract
     Objectives of this research were 1) to study the leadership development strategy of the municipality executives at the lower Northeastern region of Thailand, 2) to study the concepts, theories and Dhamma principles regarding the leadership development strategy of local administrative organization executives at and 3) to propose the ideal leadership development strategies of the municipality executives at he lower Northeastern region of Thailand.
    Methodology was the mixed methods between the qualitative and quantitative researches. The qualitative research collected data from 23 key informants, purposefully selected from Sangha leaders, community leaders, municipality permanent secretaries, municipality majors and academicians using structured in-depth-interview form by face-to-face in-depth-interviewing and analyzed data by descriptive interpretation. The quantitative research collected data by questionnaires from 400 stratified samples, analyzed data with percentile, mean and standard deviation.
              Findings were as follows:
               1. The general context of leadership development Strategy of the municipality executives at the lower Northeastern region of Thailand was divided into 3 categories;1) development strategy of self management skill; the executives still lacked of  self understanding in vision leadership,2) manpower management skill development strategy; the municipality executives’ skill had the weak point and
3) task management skill development strategy had strong point , for the municipality executives had strong determination to work in order to respond to the people’s satisfaction in the localities.
               2. concepts, theories and Dhammaprinciples related to the leadership development strategy of the executives of local administrative organizations were found that the executives must have specific leadership attributes in leading the organization and society, creating the confidence for subordinates, acting as the policy planner and implementing the local development as the set plan. As for the Buddhadhamma principles for leadership development was the Sappurisadhamma, the principles for good man, consisting of 7 principles; 2.1) Dhammanyuta, knowing the principles, 2.2) Attanyuta, knowing the content and target, 2.3) Attanyuta, knowing self well, 2.4) Mattanyuta, knowing moderation, 2.5) Kalanyuta, knowing time management, 2.6) Parisanyuta, knowing company or community, 2.7) Pukkalaparoparanyuta, knowing individual differences.
                3. Ideal leadership development strategy of municipality executives at the lower Northeastern region of Thailand was found that the development strategy of self management skill must be for executive leadership development, vision development plan, ethical leadership development project and Dhamma practice in the monasteries for the municipality executives. Leadership development strategy for manpower management skill was that there must be thinking skill development plan, attitude adaptation, target communication plan, moderation knowing, undesirable behavior correction, human resource in organization development plan, network and communication skill development plan. Leadership development strategy for task management skill was that there must be Dhamma practice of the base of mindfulness, modern organization operation, self analytical thinking system development, timeframe applicable risk management plan, determination of organizational culture, community and network development.

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