dc.contributor.author	YuÌ cel, Cemil	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Parks, David J.	en
dc.contributor.committeecochair	Cross, Lawrence H.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Parson, Stephen R.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Uysal, Muzaffer S.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Carlton, Patrick W.	en
dc.contributor.department	Educational Leadership and Policy Studies	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-14T20:19:25Z	en
dc.date.adate	1999-11-30	en
dc.date.available	2014-03-14T20:19:25Z	en
dc.date.issued	1999-11-18	en
dc.date.rdate	2000-11-30	en
dc.date.sdate	1999-11-30	en
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of this study was to explore the utility of Hall's (1961) conceptualization of Max Weber's (1946) theory of bureaucracy as an analytical tool in Turkey. The population was 1946 teachers in 91 public schools that employ five or more teachers. The instruments were distributed to 725 teachers in 68 schools in Karabuk province. Useable returns were 486. A pilot sample (one third of the useable returns) was generated to test the instruments by utilizing a series of item analyses. Remaining cases were used to answer the research questions in a separate sample. Items to measure bureaucracy derived from different versions of Hall's (1961) Organizational Inventory which operationalized six bureaucratic dimensions: hierarchy of authority, division of labor, rules and regulations, procedural specifications, impersonality, and technical competence. Item-analyses were done in the pilot sample. The surviving items were subjected to a factor analysis using the research sample. Generally, the factor structure of items obtained in the pilot sample was replicated in the research sample. Items measuring sense of power were also isolated from the literature and tested in the pilot sample. The surviving items were also subjected to a factor analysis in the research sample. The six moderately correlated bureaucratic dimensions clustered around two negatively related second-order factors. The first factor (control) was composed of hierarchy of authority, rules and regulations, procedural specifications, and formality in relations. The second factor (expertise) was composed of division of labor and technical competence. Based on control and expertise scores, teachers were classified into four typologies: Weberian, Collegial, Chaotic, and Authoritarian. Teachers in collegial cluster were the highest in sense of power and teachers in authoritarian cluster were the lowest in sense of power. Sense of power was inversely related to bureaucratization and positively related to expertise above and beyond the other relevant variables. It is concluded that there is support for the applicability of the western predisposition of bureaucracy to Turkish schools because of similar findings reported by western researchers. Max Weber's ideal theory of bureaucracy as it was operationalizaed by Hall is a useful analytical tool to examine the organizational structure of Turkish schools.	en
dc.description.degree	Ph. D.	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-113099-012147	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-113099-012147/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29812	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.haspart	ch3.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	ch5.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	ch2.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	ch4.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	back.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	ch1.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	front.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	ch6.pdf	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Alienation	en
dc.subject	Turkish Public Schools	en
dc.subject	Organizational Structure	en
dc.subject	Bureaucracy	en
dc.title	Bureaucracy and Teachers' Sense of Power	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Educational Leadership and Policy Studies	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	doctoral	en
thesis.degree.name	Ph. D.	en

Bureaucracy and Teachers' Sense of Power

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