The Ministry of Education of Turkey changed the national education programs in accordance with recent approaches in education as part of the educational reform that covers basic and secondary levels of schooling in 2005-2006 academic year. This educational reform that was proposed to change the formerly traditional, behaviorist, and teacher-centered programs into constructivist and student-centered programs will obviously have effects on millions of students, educators and families. Its long-term influence is expected to be seen on the whole society in coming years. The purpose of this study is to describe how school culture, values on professionalism, perceptions on the new programs, and organizational structure and leadership of schools will ease or impede with the implementation of the new national educational programs. A pure qualitative research design was used to study this problem. Multiple case study was carried out with semi-structured, face-to-face interviews as the method of data collection. The data sources for the interviews were teachers and administrators from four schools of different socio economic regions in Istanbul, one of which was a private school. Some of the official documents of the Ministry of Education were also used as supportive evidence to the data collected through the interviews.

The purpose of this study is to gain insight and identify the effects of sociocultural context on the administrative processes of an American Elementary / Middle School in Spain. In this single-case study, a multicultural educational organization, Sevilla Elementary / Middle School was examined using qualitative data which were collected through interviews, observations, and document analysis. Upon identification of the problems of interest, sociocultural context in relation to administrative processes and common problems faced by administrators in multicultural school settings were examined. The school&amp / #8217 / s administrative processes including motivation, educational leadership, decision making, communication, and organizational change proved to be influenced by the sociocultural context.

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This study aimed at exploring the school effectiveness characteristics of two high schools, one with high (School A) and one with low (School B) levels of placement ratio in &Ouml / SS for their graduates, to observe their characteristics as perceived by their stakeholders (students, teachers, parents, school administrative staff and managers). In this study, a comparative pre-structured case study method was employed. The study was conducted in two private high schools in the province of Ankara, Turkey. The participants were 10 students, 10 teachers, 10 parents, 2 non-academic staff and 3 administrators from School A, and 10 students, 10 teachers, 7 parents, 3 non-academic staff and 2 administrators from School B. A framework drawn by the researcher as a result of review of relevant literature was used to conceptualize the study and to guide the interview schedules to collect data. According to this framework, six general areas in effective school literature were explored. These areas were academic emphasis, organization and administration, school climate, home-school relations, teaching staff, and physical and financial resources. The data collected through semi-structured interviews were analyzed using content analysis technique. The findings revealed that two case schools had major differences almost in all areas explored. The only major similarity between two schools was in the leadership and leader qualities under organization and administration area. The effective school characteristics of the school with high levels of placement ratio in &Ouml / SS, in all six areas explored were added to the conceptual framework drawn at the beginning of the study.

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OBJECTIF. Ces travaux de recherche ont étudié l’association entre la qualité de vie au travail (QVT) et les facteurs d’organisation auprès d’une population de personnels hospitaliers. METHODE. Deux études par questionnaires et deux études par entretiens semi-directifs ont été menées. Les études par questionnaires ont exploré les caractéristiques psychosociales professionnelles (JCQ), la qualité de vie (SF-12) et les contraintes psycho-organisationnelles des personnels (NWI-EO). Les entretiens se sont focalisés sur l’organisation du travail, l’environnement de travail, les relations interpersonnelles et l’influence du travail sur la santé. RESULTATS. Un total de 452 professionnels a participé aux enquêtes par questionnaires et 36 professionnels ont été interrogés en entretien. Les professionnels ayant vécu un transfert de services ont présenté des tensions au travail associés à un isolement social accrus et déclarent de plus fortes contraintes concernant le manque de communication ainsi que les relations dégradées au sein des équipes. Dans notre population, les autres principaux facteurs d’organisation associés à la dégradation des caractéristiques psychosociales et de la qualité de vie sont le fait de travailler plus de 2 week-ends par mois, d’être régulièrement de garde, de travailler dans des environnements non fonctionnels et de ne pas participer à des réunions régulières. CONCLUSION. Ces résultats appellent la gestion des hôpitaux à concevoir des processus de communication plus adaptés, de fournir un bon équilibre entre vie professionnelle et personnelle ainsi qu’un environnement ergonomique et fonctionnel. / AIM. These researches examined the association between quality of work life (QoWL) and organizational factors within health care workers. METHOD. Two studies by questionnaires and two studies by semi-structured interviews were conducted. Studies by questionnaires explored the professional psychosocial characteristics (JCQ), quality of life (SF-12) and psycho-organizational constraints (NWI-EO). The interviews focused on the work organization, the work environment, the interpersonal relationships and the influence of work on health. RESULTS. A total of 452 professionals participated in the studies by questionnaires and 36 professionals were interviewed. Professionals who lived a department relocation have presented an increase of job strain associated with social isolation and declared greater constraints concerning the lack of communication as well as team relationships. In our population, the other main factors associated with the degradation of psychosocial characteristics and quality of life are to work more than two weekends a month, to be regularly on call, to work in non-functional environments and to do not participate in regular meetings. CONCLUSION. These results call the hospital management to design more appropriate communication processes, to provide a good balance between professional and personal life as well as an ergonomic and functional environment.