Effect of School Organizational Culture on Teacher Leadership

Abstract

This study used distributed leadership theory to investigate the relationship between a school’s perceived organizational culture and teacher leadership in higher education institutions in eastern China. In total, 509 teachers at universities in eastern China participated in a questionnaire survey through the correlation analysis, regression analysis and other data analysis methods for the result analysis. The results indicated that clan and adhocracy cultures had a significant and positive impact on teacher leadership, while a hierarchical and market cultures had a significant and negative impact.The results revealed the influence of clan culture, adhocracy culture, hierarchical culture and market culture on teacher leadership, and provide suggestions for school administrators on how to improve university teacher leadership through school organizational culture. In addition, the contributions and limitations are discussed at the end of this study.