The Reliability and Validity of the Chinese School Version of the Denison Organizational Culture
Keywords:
school culture; Chinese school; Denison Organizational Culture SurveyAbstract
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the applicability of
the Denison Organizational Culture Survey in a Chinese school context.
The survey is consisted of four culture traits: involvement, consistency,
adaptability, and mission. Each trait is divided further into three
indexes, each of which is derived from three items. The sample included
424 teachers in six Chinese primary and middle schools. All traits and
indexes showed acceptable internal consistency. Confirmatory factor
analyses tested how well the same factor structure fit the present data.
The results of acceptable goodness of fit indices showed the same
pattern with the original structure of four traits and twelve indexes.
Higher correlation between school culture and school effectiveness
indicated good external validity of the present survey. The Chinese
school version of the Denison Organizational Culture Survey has
satisfactory psychometric properties.
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