CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN SCHOOLS

Purpose - Organizational culture is based on beliefs, values and behaviors considered appropriate by its members. This can cause employees to leave the organization or stimulate them to behave in a certain way. This paper aimes to analyze if and how the organizational culture in pre-university education institutions could be changed. Methodology/approach - For comprehensive understanding of this concept, a literature review will be conducted based on various studies, books and specialist articles. Findings - The study will focus on identifying factors influencing school organizational culture and presenting a model for change. Research limitations/implications – The limitation of the present research derives from the complexity of the addressed topic. The present paper provides an overview of literature review, however an interesting future research direction could be the analysis of school organizational cultures by school level. It would be equally useful to analyze and compare the organizational cultures in the rural environment with those in the urban environment. Practical implications – This paper presents the factors that influence the culture of a pre-university educational institution and identifies a model of culture change in schools. Originality/value – The originality of this work consists in following the process of changing the school organizational culture from the influencing factors to a concrete model of change.