Organisational Culture in Educational Institutions in Central, Northern, and North-Eastern Hungary

Abstract

The pur­pose of this re­search is to com­ple­ment and test pre­vi­ous Hun­garian stud­ies about or­gan­isa­tional cul­ture at pub­lic edu­ca­tional in­sti­tu­tions, and to provide in­sight into the cur­rent cul­tural idio­syn­crasies of edu­ca­tional in­sti­tu­tions. It is pre­sumed that be­sides hav­ing an or­gan­isa­tional cul­ture with focus on rules, schools dis­play sup­port and in­nov­at­ive fea­tures in grow­ing num­bers. It is also as­sumed that there are sig­ni­fic­ant dif­fer­ences between the per­cep­tions of the man­age­ment and the em­ploy­ees when it comes to cul­ture. In this study, 1030 per­sons from 44 pub­lic in­sti­tu­tions provided data in two cycles of data col­lec­tion per­formed in Bud­apest, and in Komárom-Es­zter­gom, Fejér, Pest, Heves, Hajdú-Bi­har and Nógrád counties. Res­ults show that, be­sides focus on rules, there is a sub­stan­tial pres­ence of sup­port cul­tural val­ues, in­clud­ing im­port­ant ex­amples for in­nov­at­ive cul­ture, even if in mod­est num­bers, mostly in Bud­apest and its ag­glom­er­a­tion, i.e. in Pest, Fejér and Komárom-Es­zter­gom counties. Be­sides a ty­po­lo­gical ap­proach to or­gan­isa­tional cul­ture, soph­ist­ic­ated dis­tinc­tions could be made in the find­ings with the help of cul­tural para­met­ers. As a res­ult, it may be ar­gued that the num­ber of years spent in an in­sti­tu­tion, age and gender have the most pro­found in­flu­ence on the per­cep­tions of or­gan­isa­tional cul­ture. Fi­nally, the com­pos­i­tion of the sample also sug­gests fem­in­isa­tion and aging in teach­ing.