The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect size of the relationship between school organizational culture and school organizational effectiveness through meta-analysis method. For this, three research questions were established. First, how is the total effect size of the relationship between school organizational culture and school organizational effectiveness? Second, how is the effect size of the relationship between school organizational culture types and sub-factors of school organizational effectiveness? Third, is there the effect size’s differences of the relationship between school organizational culture and school organizational effectiveness depending on moderators?
To investigate these research questions, the researcher carried out meta-analysis on the 204 Pearson’s correlation coefficients of the 32 articles published from 1990 to 2015. Organizational culture types was divided into developmental culture, relational culture, rational culture, and hierarchical culture by two criteria, perception of the human relation, and attitude of the job performance. The sub-factors of school organizational effectiveness were identified as job satisfaction, organizational adaptation, organizational commitment, and job performance by the preference frequency. Major findings of this study are as follows.
First, the file drawer problem was verified through the Rosenthal’s Fail-safe N and Orwin’s Fail-safe N, and the problem of publication bias was verified through the Egger’s regression intercept and Tweedie’s Trim & Fill. The result of Rosenthal’s Fail-safe N and Orwin’s Fail-safe N proved that there is no file drawer problem of this study. Egger’s regression intercept verification was not significant statistically, so that publication bias was not revealed in this study. The result of Tweedie’s Trim & Fill was also proved that publication bias was not found in point of the effect size of this study.
Second, the effect size of the relationship between school organizational culture and school organizational effectiveness was .539(r=.492), it was proved that school organizational culture has big effect on school organizational effectiveness.
Third, the effect size of the relationship between school organizational culture types and sub-factors of school organizational effectiveness were as follows. In terms of developmental culture’s effect size on school organizational effectiveness sub-factors, organizational adaptation factor was relatively bigger than job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job performance in order. Likewise relational culture’s effect size on school organizational effectiveness sub-factors, job satisfaction factor was relatively bigger than organizational adaptation, organizational commitment, job performance in order. In case of rational culture’s effect size on school organizational effectiveness sub-factors, organizational adaptation was relatively bigger than organizational commitment, job satisfaction, job performance in order. In case of hierarchical culture’s effect size on school organizational effectiveness sub-factors, organizational commitment was relatively bigger than organizational adaptation, job satisfaction, and job performance in order.
Fourth, it was revealed that the effect size of the relationship between school organizational culture and school organizational effectiveness depending on moderators has significant difference statistically in accordance with publication type, school level, publication years, and measurement tool.
Fifth, the effect size of the relationship between school organizational culture types and school organizational effectiveness depending on moderators turned out follows. The effect size of developmental culture, rational culture, hierarchical culture showed significant difference statistically in accordance with publication type, school level, and publication years. The effect size of relational culture showed significant difference statistically in accordance with publication type, publication years, but has did not show significant difference in accordance with school level.
Sixth, the result of meta-regression analysis in accordance with publication year turned out to decrease or increase little bit significantly depending on publication year. The effect size of developmental culture and relational culture decrease little bit, while the effect size of hierarchical culture showed tiny increase depending on publication year.