THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CHARACTERS OF SCHOOL STAKEHOLDERS: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS

Abstract

The present study was designed to identify the level of organizational culture in Iranian schools. Moreover, this paper aims at investigating the relationship between the characters of school stakeholders and school organizational culture based on students’ perception. The researchers conducted multivariate regression analysis to explore the relationship between the variables in the study. The participants in this study were 400 secondary school students in Lorestan province, Iran. The results of the current research show that the practice of organizational culture in schools is at medium level. This study found a moderately strong relationship between character of stakeholders and school organizational culture. In spite of various researches on school organizational culture in education, no research has been found to demonstrate the relationship between characters of school’s stakeholders and its organizational culture. Therefore, the results of this research can be beneficial for the country’s educational system to explain a new path of future research in school organizational culture. In addition the outcome of this study also can help school stakeholders including principals, teachers, and parents to have more effect and contributions in improving school organizational culture.