Examination of High School Teachers' Perceptions of Organizational Culture

In this study, it was aimed to determine the degree of participation of teachers working in high schools in the practices made in organizational culture and its sub-dimensions, and to determine the current state of school culture; In this study, it was aimed to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and motivation perceptions. Based on the perceptions of the teachers, it was examined to what extent the schools they work in showed the organizational culture characteristics. The sample of the research consists of 443 teachers working in Hatay Province Iskenderun District in the 2022-2023 academic year. Personal Information Form, "Organizational Culture Scale" developed by İpek (1999) and "Teacher Motivation Scale" developed by Uçar (2015) were used as data collection tools. The demographic information, frequency and percentage distributions of the teachers in the study group were extracted. For the first sub-problem, arithmetic mean and standard deviation scores of organizational culture and learning organization scales were calculated. For the second sub-problem, independent sample t-test analysis was used to determine the change in organizational culture and learning organization perceptions according to gender and branch variable. A single factor analysis of variance was used for the unrelated sample in order to determine the changes according to age and professional seniority. As a result of the research, it was concluded that the organizational culture perceptions of the teachers were at the "High" level and the learning organization perceptions were at the "Moderate" level. In the study, it was concluded that there was no significant difference in the perceptions of teachers' organizational culture and learning organization in terms of gender, branch, age and professional seniority. In the research, it was concluded that there is a positive "moderate" relationship between teachers' organizational culture (in all dimensions) and learning organization perceptions (in all dimensions). 
 
Keywords: Learning Organization, Organizational Culture, Professional Culture, High School