(1102.pdf) SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN EUROPEAN SCHOOLS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FUTURE SCHOOL LEADERS

摘要

Educational management theory still needs good concepts to describe and understand specificity ofschools as organizations. The concept of organizational culture is probably one of the best examplesof ideas that can be transfer from the area of general management theory to the domain ofeducational management to help to solve this problem. Looking at schools from the perspective oforganizational culture helps to describe them, understand them better as organizations and eventuallymakes school transformation easier.One of the problems with school organizational culture is that they are different. Good description ofthose differences helps to apply practical action when school reform and transformation is needed.International comparisons of school culture can help to understand richness of school organizationalculture and its development in different national contexts that then can help in educationaltransformations that are undertaken locally.The paper presents the research on school organizational culture carried out with participation of agroup of students from six European countries taking part in international training project focused onschool leadership development. Among partners taking part in that project were universities fromSpain, England, Norway, Ireland, Poland and Turkey.Research group consisted of students of different master degree and postgraduate programmes ofeducational management or leadership. They were asked to assess school organizational culture intheir countries and their own preferred organizational culture using Charles Handy typology oforganizational cultures. Paper presents results of that study that show some interesting differencesbetween organizational cultures in six countries.