Relationship between Organizational Culture and Quality of Learners in Schools under Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Primary Educational Service Area Office 1

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to study the schools’ organizational culture; 2) to study the quality of learners; and 3) to study the relationship between the organizational culture and the quality of learners. The samples were selected from 127 school administrators and 127 teachers from 127 schools under Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 by simple random sampling via drawing method. The research instrument was 5-scale questionnaire with the reliability at .96. The statisticsused for data analysis were mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. The results indicated that: 1) the clan culture had the highest average of an organizational culture, followed by achievement culture, whereas the adaptability culture had the lowest average ; 2) the quality of learners was found to be in excellent level, of which the standard 2 had the highest average, followed by the standard 1, but the standard 5 had the lowest average ; and 3) the hierarchy culture and the quality of learners had low positive relationship, and the adaptability culture, achievement culture and clan culture were shown to have no relationship with the overall results of quality assurance in education in term of the quality of learners.