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School Organizational Culture
Neglected Factor in Teacher
Training and Continual
Professional Development
Roman Dorczak
INTRODUCTION
The concept of organizational culture became popular among those interested in education from
the very beginning of its presence in the eld of general management (Anderson 1982; Handy and
Aitken 1986). Growing interest of both researchers and educational practitioners in the understand-
ing of the school organizational culture concept and the capacity of its building in real schools to
serve educational processes is no doubt clearly visible in the eld, especially during the last decade
(Walker 2010). It is be ...