The relationship between school's culture and the school director's ability to implement changes

In this study, it is aimed to determine the relationship between school culture and school director's ability to implement change in schools. The research was designed with relational scanning method. The population of the study consists of teachers who are working in public primary and secondary schools of the Ministry of National Education in Uşak. The sample consisted of 237 randomly selected teachers from these schools. As a data collection tool, School Culture Scale developed by Terzi (2005) and Change Implementation Capabilities Scale developed by Helvacı (2004) was used to determine school culture. SPSS program was used for data analysis. T-test and one-way ANOVA test were used to analyze the data. Tukey HSD test and Pearson Correlation Test were used to determine the group causing the difference. According to the results of this research, it is seen that the director's ability to apply change is quite high, there is a high level of success and support in schools and a moderate amount of bureaucratic school culture. However, it was determined that there is a very strong and positive relationship between school director's ability to implement change, support culture and peace culture levels and a very weak relationship with bureaucratic organizational culture. Key Words: Change, School Director, Organization culture