The Relationship between Organizational Culture and Administrative Function in Babol County’s Guidance School Managers, Iran

ABSTRACT: This descriptive analytical study was done to consider the relationship between organizational culture and the manager’s administrative function from guidance school teachers and managers’ point of view in Babol city, Iran. The correlational-descriptive method was used. The statistical population included all 111 managers (57 male, 54 female) and 745 teachers (348 male, 397 female) of Babol County’s guidance schools in 2011-2012 academic year. The two Organizational Cultures and Managers’ Functionality substantive questionnaires were used to collect data. The management scholar views were used to determine the validity and the Cranach’s alpha was used to determine the questionnaires’ reliability (α=0.89) and (α=0.84) respectively. The research findings showed that each type of educational system cultures (participatory culture, entrepreneurship culture, missionary culture, and bureaucratic culture) have a significant relationship with managers’ administrative functions. Also, this relationship hadn’t significant correlation with gender and educational qualifications. The improvement of organizational culture would cause efficiency and improvement in the level of managers’ functionality through their training.

Organizational Culture, Managers’ Administrative Function, Guidance School