Buraeucratic Dimensions of Tehran Public School Organizations

Subject Areas : Futurology

علی  Alaghehband ¹ (ندارد)
A.R  Jamshidnejad ² ()

Received: 2015-01-26 Accepted : 2015-01-26 Published : 2003-06-22

Keywords: School Organization, Bureaucray, Effectiveness, Effeciency, organizational health, Bureaucatic, Structure, Centeralization, Formalization, Specilization, Structural Modeles,

Abstract :

The  purpose  of the  study  was  to investigate  the  bureaucratic  dimensions  of  school  organizations in Tehran. More  specifically , the  study  was  desighed  to  (1) describe  and  explore  the  structural characteristics  of public  schools , namely , the extent  of  their  centralization, formalization  and  specialization, (2)  identify  and  analyze  the  relationship  between  bureaucratic  dimensions  and  organizational  health  of  schools. The findings  from  this  study,  based  on the  data  obtained  by  three  types  of  questionnaires: SOI ( school organization  Inventory), OHI ( Organizational Health Inventory), and GCS (General Characteristics  of school) on  the  sample  POPULATION (1700 teachers  and  3600  pupils  of 223 public  school  randomly  selected  from  19 school districts  in Tehran) warranted  the  following  conclusions, subject  to  validation  by  further  studies: (1)    All  223 school  showed  bureaucratic  characteristics  whit  various  degree, but  the  extent  of  specialization  was higher  then  centralization  and  formalization  in school  structures, (2) 19 different  school  structures  were  observed  in Tehran, but , the  structures  with  low  centralization, low  formalization  and  high  specialization  created  higher  level  of  organizational  health  in public  schools , and  finally, (3) the  findings  indicated  that  minimized  centralization and  formalization  accompanied  with  maximized  specialization  in  school  structures tended  to improve  school  organizations.