Social Values and Life Skills as Predictors of Organizational Culture: A Study on Teachers

Yavuz Bolat,Celalettin Korkmaz

doi:10.1177/21582440211023179

Abstract

Organizational culture is crucial for all living institutional structures and has become a critical research topic. Although different variables have been investigated in the literature as predictors of organizational culture, to our knowledge, the role of social values and life skills as mediators hasn’t been investigated before. This study, therefore, aims to investigate the role of social values and life skills as mediators of organizational culture. The hypotheses of the research were tested in the context of this research aim. The present study, which is in the relational survey model, included 370 participants consisting of teachers and school leaders working in 22 different educational institutions. The findings showed that teachers and school leaders had high levels of organizational culture, social values, and life skills. The relationship of organizational culture with social values and life skills is meaningful and high. Also, the findings indicate a partial effect on mediating organizational culture between social values and life skills.

Highlights

In many studies conducted in the field of education, the characteristics of educators were examined many times with the help of different variables
This study aims to examine social values and life skills as a predictor of organizational culture according to the views of teachers and school leaders
In the context of value size, the findings showed that the Social Values (SVs) of teachers and school leaders had higher than their Life Skills (LSs) and Organizational Culture (OC)

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Introduction

In many studies conducted in the field of education, the characteristics of educators were examined many times with the help of different variables. People come together and can affect the formation of organizational culture by influencing the communities with their cultural characteristics within the structures they create. We are given a set of cultural defining characteristics that we are expected to adapt to in social life. Perfection is a goal or an idea of success and redemption It symbolizes the superiority or electability of humanity concerning its characteristics and diversity. In another approach, culture as concrete and collective is a state of intellectual and moral development in society, which relates the concept of culture to the idea of civilization. It takes culture to the center of collective life rather than

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