Identifying the dimensions and indicators of school organizational culture development and its role in economic development: A data research foundation

The aim of this study was to identify the dimensions and indicators of organizational culture development for primary schools in Alborz province. This research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of collecting qualitative information of the grounded theory type. In the qualitative section, education specialists and experts (who have scientific and executive backgrounds in education) and university professors (faculty members, with research backgrounds related to organizational culture) were considered as the research community. Targeted snowballs were selected. Semi-structured exploratory interviews were used to collect information on national and international documents related to the subject of the study. The interviews went on until the theoretical saturation in the dimensions and components of the research and then stopped with the decision of the researcher. Finally, after collecting information from the interview sections and reviewing the sources, the data were analyzed through coding (open, axial and selective). To determine the validity of the findings, in addition to the data were selected and confirmed by studying the theoretical foundations, research background, sources, interviews with focal people, the opinions and guidelines of a group of experts were taken into account and final coding was done before coding. Findings showed that a total of 9 dimensions and 80 indicators of interviews about organizational culture in primary schools in Alborz province were counted. The identified dimensions were: organizational structure, organizational goals, human capital, leadership, strategy, social capital, organizational environment, organizational technology and psychological capital