Topic
Organizational Culture in Higher Education
Instructions
Analytical Framework
What is the problem the author addresses?
What are the assumptions the author makes?
What theoretical, conceptual, or interpretive framework does the author use?
What is the author’s model of education? In other words:
What is the role of education in society? What should it be?
What are the methods that the author uses?
What type of publication is it?
What is the research design? (case study, longitudinal study, etc.)
What is (are) the unit(s) of analysis?
What is the nature of the evidence?
How are the data analyzed?
Does the data fit the line of argument?
What are the author’s findings?
Is the argument convincing? Why or why not?
Does the theory adequately explain, predict, or interpret the phenomena is question?
To what extent is the phenomenon in question explained by the theory?
To what extent might the phenomenon in question also be explained by other variables and/or theories?
What implications for professional practice can be drawn from this scholarship?
Answer preview
In a work by Tierney (1988), the author present one of the cases studies of a state learning institution demonstrating a scaffold to analyze culture in collegiate institutions. In addition to this, the author describes the reason why organizational culture is a beneficial idea of understanding management, as well as performance in higher education. In doing so, the author has pointed out how administrators may use the idea of culture to solve particular administrative challenges. It is also clear that the author has outlined previous attempts to describe culture in higher education. The author has highlighted the indispensable elements of education culture. Furthermore, the author conducted a case study in one of the public state college which brings to the limelight the necessary elements of education culture. The author concludes the article by explaining some of the probable avenues researchers may assess so as to augment a usable structure of organizational culture for researchers and executives in higher education.
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