The role of Organizational Culture at Adoption of Management Excellence Plan among Education Principals

The research’s method is applied and it has descriptive-correlational method. The statistical population comprises all of the schools’ principals in district 1 and 2 of Urmia City, counting 143 individuals that 104 pricipals were selected in accordance with Cochran Formula and using random stratified sampling proportional to volume. The required data were collected using 2 questionnaires of Organizational Culture and Management Excellence Plan. The validity of questionnaires were approved using content analysis. The reliability of questionnaires were determined as follow: 0.91 and 0.88. The data was analyzed in 2 levels which are descriptive and inferential (Pearson’s coefficient of correlation and step by step regression). The main results showed that there is a meaningful and positive relationship between organizational culture and its four components (Consensus, Rational, Hierachical, and Ideological culture) with Management Excellence Plan. The variable of organizational culture has the ability to predict the variance of the variable of acceptance of the Management Excellence Plan. Among the components of organizational culture, the ideological culture has the biggest share. Finally in line of resuts, applied suggestions have been presented.