Buraeucratic Dimensions of Tehran Public School Organizations

The purpose of the study was to investigate the bureaucratic dimensions of school organizations in Tehran. More specifically , the study was desighed to (1) describe and explore the structural characteristics of public schools , namely , the extent of their centralization, formalization and specialization, (2) identify and analyze the relationship between bureaucratic dimensions and organizational health of schools.
The findings from this study, based on the data obtained by three types of questionnaires: SOI ( school organization Inventory), OHI ( Organizational Health Inventory), and GCS (General Characteristics of school) on the sample POPULATION (1700 teachers and 3600 pupils of 223 public school randomly selected from 19 school districts in Tehran) warranted the following conclusions, subject to validation by further studies: (1) All 223 school showed bureaucratic characteristics whit various degree, but the extent of specialization was higher then centralization and formalization in school structures, (2) 19 different school structures were observed in Tehran, but , the structures with low centralization, low formalization and high specialization created higher level of organizational health in public schools , and finally, (3) the findings indicated that minimized centralization and formalization accompanied with maximized specialization in school structures tended to improve school organizations.