The scale of school organizational culture in Indonesia

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop a measurement model in order to investigate sorts of organizational cultures (OCs) existing in school organizations.

Design/methodology/approach

This study involved 300 teachers of Primary Schools in the Malang City, East Java Indonesia. It used a quantitative approach with structural equation modelling to develop a measurement model of school OC. To enable the measure of this variable to work, OC scale was constructed and validated employing a confirmatory factor analysis.

Findings

Results suggest items of the scale are conceptualized as unidimensional measure. The scale, thus, could be used to examine and properly identified types of OCs within a school setting.

Research limitations/implications

This study developed e-scale to measure OC within a school context. The measure was tested in referring to the data derived from a limited sample of primary school teachers in Malang City, Indonesia.

Practical implications

This study recommends that school principals are expected to create an OC to ensure the improvement of individual capacities is carried out effectively.

Originality/value

The investigation focused on a school OC as a complex project. Since not many research studies developed the scales to measure this specific cultural construct, the findings add to the theory in this area.

Citation

Burhanuddin, B. (2019), "The scale of school organizational culture in Indonesia", International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 33 No. 7, pp. 1582-1595. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-01-2018-0030