The Relationship between Organizational Culture and the Components of Value-based Management and Providing a Model to Predict Management by Values (A Case Study of Educational Organization of Abadeh)

The current study aimed to examine the relationship between organizational culture and value-based management in Abadeh educational organization in order to set forth a model to predict management by values. As far as the hypotheses of the study areconcerned a care was taken of the relationships between dimensions of organizational culture (risk acceptance, innovation, motivation, communication, team-work and control) and value-based management. A use was made of two questionnaires developed by the current researcher to assess organizational culture and value-based management. The target population of the study consisted of all of teachers (N=600) and administrative personnel (N=55) of the educational organization of Abadeh in the school year 2009-2010. 234 teachers were sampled using proportionate random sampling method.The sample also included all administrative personnel. Management experts’ comments were utilized to evaluate the validity of the instruments. A use was also made of Cronbach’s alpha to assess their reliability. The alpha indexes for organizational culture and valuebased management questionnaires were 0.96 and 0.94 respectively. In order to examine the hypotheses a use was made of inferential statistical (correlation test, multiple regression and path analysis). The results of the study indicated that there was a significant relationship between all variables of organizational culture and value-basedmanagement.