Paper Title
Academic Support Personnel‘s Perception and Understanding of Strategic Plans in Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University

Abstract
This study aims to investigate the academic support personnel’s perception and understanding of strategic plans in Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, along with their application of the 5-year strategic plan (2017-2021) and operational plan of Fiscal Year 2019 in Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University. The sampled group for this study consisted of 38 academic support staff members of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University. The sample group members were selected by purposive sampling, and information was gathered by online questionnaire. The study found that most of the academic support personnel knew about the strategic plan from the website, and had correct perception/understanding of the faculty’s direction at 97.37%, about 1) vision of being the top in humanities and social science research, 2) production of graduates with good ethics, quality, matching the need of the community, knowledge base economy-oriented society and happy coexistence with the world community as the highest priority mission of the faculty and 3) provide innovation and knowledge for development of the local community, Thai wisdom and foreign language skills as the second-highest priority of the faculty. 97.37% of the staff applied the strategic plan in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University such as (1) application of the strategic plan in the project/activity personally participated by the staff, 2) conformance of the operational plan towards the strategic plan and 3) equal mindfulness of the faculty’s goal. It was suggested that there should be developmental research on perception and understanding of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University ‘s academic support personnel toward the strategic plan to get in-depth information for further operation and improvement of routine work quality. Keywords - Personnel, Perception, Understanding, Strategic plan