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- Title
The Relationship Between an Effective Organizational Culture and Student Discipline in a Boarding School.
- Authors
Van Der Westhuizen, Philip C.; Oosthuizen, Izak; Wolhuter, C. C.
- Abstract
This article investigates the relationship between effective organizational culture and student discipline in a boys' boarding house at an urban South African school. Ethnographical methods (observation and interviews) were employed. The study reports on the results pertaining to organizational culture, namely, tangible manifestations of the organizational culture, that is, traditions, ceremonies, symbols, and the external and internal appearance of the boarding house. It also reports on the intangible manifestations, that is, students' and teachers' beliefs and the mission, vision, values, and norms of the boarding house itself. In conclusion, an explanation is tendered for the positive relationship that can be shown to exist between the organizational culture and learner discipline.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; BOARDING schools; SCHOOL discipline research; SCHOOL administration research; BOARDING school students; SOUTH Africans; EDUCATION
- Publication
Education & Urban Society, 2008, Vol 40, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0013-1245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0013124507303992