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RESEARCHING ORGANISATIONAL
CULTURE – A CASE FROM SLOVENIA
Dr. Justina Erčulj
National School for Leadership in Education, Slovenia
University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper, Slovenia
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The researcher
• 30 years in education• Teacher, deputy head teacher, head teacher,
lecturer, co-ordinator of international projects…
• Mother of two adult children
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The structure of my presentation
• Why such a research was done?• Two aspects of organisational culture• Two aspects – two research paradigms• Challenges for qualitative research in
Slovenia• Steps in the research• Researcher’s dilemmas • Key findings
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Why the research was done?
• The feeling of culture – me as a teacher, a deputy head teacher, a parent…
• Culture as a vague concept – me as a small-scale researcher
• Culture ‘in situ’ – me as a lecturer in schools
• Culture and the claim for recipes – me as a head teachers’ trainer
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Two aspects of organisational culture
• Culture as something an organisation HAS – managerial view
• Culture as something an organisation IS – anthropological view
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Managerial aspect
• Shared assumptions, systems, values• Behavioural regularities• Common set of rules• ‘Strong’ and ‘weak’ cultures• Typologies
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Anthropological aspect
• Uniqueness of an organisation• Emerging from collective interaction• Dynamic relationships• Organisations as multiple identities
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Two aspects – two paradigms
• Managerial aspect – “the pressure for certainty” (Simons 1996): questionnaires, diagnostic tools, existing : preferred, ranking, figures - quantitative
• Anthropological aspect – “narrative analysis” (Hammersley and Gromm 2000): observations, interviews, interpretation - qualitative
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Challenges for qualitative research in Slovenia
• Scientific knowledge understood in Popperian sense: “the world of objective theories, objective problems, and objective arguments” (Popper 1979: 108)
• In 1982 first qualitative (action) research published in Slovenia followed by some other action research studies (“randomly qualitative”)
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Challenges for qualitative research in Slovenia
• Attributes related to qualitative studies in Slovenia: ‘alternative methodological principles’ (Toš 1999), ‘pseudoscience’ (Kirn 1996), ‘private matter that allows [researchers] an individual opinion’ (Ule 2000)
• Qualitative and quantitative paradigms as complementary – but: “Hypotheses that have been developed during research process in an inductive way should be tested in a theoretical way with the help of ‘external’ theory in a deductive way” (Sagadin 2001)
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Case study as the selected research method
• It “recognises the complexity and ‘embeddedness’ of social truths” (Adelman 1980) and is related to “emphasis on interpretation” (Stake 1995).
• 2 schools: E (effective), S (silent)
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‘Structure’ of the research
E and S schoolhead teacher
teachers artefacts
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My challenges
• Stuggling with my own understanding of ‘reality’
• The ‘laden-I’ (Peshkin 1988)• Validity of my research in a quantitatively-
oriented research community• Ethical concerns – S school
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Data collection
• Documentary analysis (school brochures, schools’ annual plans)
• Observation (final ceremony, the first school day)
• Interviews
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The problem of validity
• Uniqueness of the case study – little (no?) capacity for generalisation
• The issue of the relationship between the researcher, the researched and the reader
• Internal validity: triangulation of data, reflexivity on my bias
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Schools in public documents
• tables and figures• ‘language of quantification’• ‘universalism’• ‘bureaucratic nature of the school’
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Schools in public events
• perfect organisation• projection of unified beliefs• “less about what [schools] are like than
about what they should be like” (Parker, 2000)
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Schools in teachers’ stories
• diversity of patterns• “issue-specific coalitions” (Martin, 1992)• stories influenced by teachers’ personal and
professional experiences – local stories
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Schools in head teachers’ stories
• E School: control, external accountability, ‘economy of performance’
• S School: powerlessness, metaphors
BUT• Cultural gatekeepers • Little consideration of teachers’ voices
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Two cultures of schools
PRIVATE CULTURE
PUBLIC CULTURE
symbols
publ
icat
ion
rituals
rules
build
ing
meanings
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Questions for discussion
• What are current challenges for research in your country?
• How would you approach studying organisational culture?