The Influence Of Organizational Culture On The Performance(S) Of An Educational Institution

The pressure of the educational policies of permanent reform of the Romanian school, the selection of increasingly sophisticated technological resources and the demands of the labor market have imposed on the contemporary educational institution the condition of adaptation to change. A “flexible organization has a competitive advantage that can be exploited.Consequently, the human resource is becoming one of the determining factors of modern school. Profitably using the professional community, favoring group cohesion, forming a community of thinking able to orient the actions and the initiatives towards the same goal are managerial demands giving the organizational culture the quality of managerial tool oriented towards the operationalization of the principle of co-evolution and co-performance.The hypothesis of our study is that a strong organizational culture has a positive influence on the performance(s) of the educational unit because it allows motivating the teaching staff. The construction of this hypothesis relies on the empirical-deductive method, which starts from the theoretical system developed by Hofstede and turns to the facts observable in the school organization on the level of the relation culture-performance.The conclusion resulted following this research is that a strong organizational culture favors the awareness of a common interest going beyond individualism or the framework of the group of colleagues in which the teacher frequently deploys his activity. Projects, values, the platform of objectives, the professional ethics code, the management rules, the organizational history are pillars of a strong culture.