Schools are important social organizations that prepare young people for their future roles as productive citizens. Schools have characteristics of rational, natural, and open systems similar to bureaucratic organizations, with hierarchies and roles. A school's culture is shaped by its values and philosophy and is transmitted to new teachers and students through socialization processes like building relationships. A school's culture can be understood through frameworks that examine its physical, social, environmental, and structural characteristics.

1. SCHOOL AS A SOCIAL
ORGANIZATION

2. Schools are important
organizations that prepare
young children of their future
roles as productive citizens in
the country. The way schools
fulfill this function has a
strong effect on the quality of
education they provide.

3. have characteristics of rational,
natural, and open systems. They
have hierarchies of authority. goals,
and role expectations similar to
bureaucratic organizations.
Individual needs affect employee
behavior, organizational goals are
not firm, informal organizations
derive from interactions among
individuals, and schools (Bozkus,
2014).

4. and Climate:
School culture is preserved and
transferred to new members by the
socialization process (Kowalski,
2010). New teachers learn shared
values. beliefs, and norms when
they interact and build lationships
with their colleagues. The school
culture is fluenced by the
philosophy and core values of the
school.

5. organization's
distinguishing
characteristics, feelings,
and behavior that can be
presented with a
framework which consists
of four elements:

6. that can be presented with a framework
which consists of four elements:
(1) physical frame is the physical factors
of a school like equipment, classrooms;
(2) social frame is the social factor;
(3) environment mostly related to social
behavior of individuals within a school,
and
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(4) structural frame represents factors
such as hierarchy, authority, role, and
symbolic frame is the parts of culture like
believes, norms, values (Kowalski, 2010).

7. aspect of leadership is the quality and
systematic effects of functions and
behaviors of principals as leaders (Bozkus,
2014).
Relationships: Social organizations like
schools are stemmed from interaction
among people both within and outside of
the organization. Relationships within
school building and with the community are
essential elements of socialization and have
a significant impact on many vital processes
(Bozkus, 2014).