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Publication Date: 2020-Jan
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Is This the Culture of Academies? Utilising the Cultural Web to Investigate the Organisational Culture of an Academy Case Study
Morris, Jonathan Padraig
Educational Management Administration & Leadership, v48 n1 p164-185 Jan 2020
This paper examines the organisational culture of a comprehensive school that converted to an academy in 2010 by utilising the cultural web model as a tool for analysing an academy's culture. The case study employs a concurrent mixed-method approach of questionnaires for staff with no responsibility (SNR), focus groups for staff with management responsibility (SMR) and interviews with members of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). The subsequent results are then discussed in relation to three themes, extracted from the cultural web -- 'student-centric', 'staff constraints' and 'leadership issues'. The findings from this research successfully demonstrate the model's ability to afford valuable insight into an academy by offering a depiction of its organisational culture and targets for organisational improvement. In addition, the paper presents a method for the future deployment of the cultural web which enables comparisons of an academy's subcultures.
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, School Administration, Charter Schools, Educational Change, School Personnel, Leadership, Rewards, Morale, Social Behavior, Student Centered Learning, Academic Achievement, Authoritarianism, Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools
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Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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