Development of Online Assessment of Agile Leadership for Administrators in Public Health

Abstract

The purposes of this study was to develop a framework for assessing the agile leadership of
administrators in public health using a mixed methods research design with an exploratory
sequential approach, employing an instrument-development design. The sample group consists of
healthcare ministry executives from all regions, including 4 geographic regions, 12 health region,
and 76 provinces of Thailand, selected using proportional stratified random sampling.
Data collection utilized documents related to the components and indicators of the agile leadership
Assessment Framework and questionnaires with a reliability coefficient of 0.89. The data analyzed
by content analysis and structural equation model using LISREL software. The result indicated that
the model for developing indicators to online assessment of agile leadership for administrators
in public health was consistent with empirical data (x2) = 1791.9, df = 497, x2 / df = 3.67, p = .00,
GFI = 0.87, CFI = 0.98, TLI = 0.98, RMSEA= 0.06) The indicators consisted: 1) context-settings
agility with 8 observable variables; 2) stakeholder agility with 8 observable variables; 3) creative
agility with 10 observable variables; and 4) self-leadership agility with 8 observable variables.
All observable variables had positive values, and the covariance between observed and latent
variables was at a good level.

Keywords: Agile Leadership; Online Assessment; Mixed Methods Research