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Listyasari, Winda Dewi (2024) Schools as learning organisations: the influence of leadership and culture (a mixed methods study in Indonesia). PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

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Abstract

School as Learning Organisation (SLO) has been proposed as an alternative strategy for school-wide transformation. However, this concept experiences little progress in research and practice. Its implementation in Asian countries also faces problems related to system leaders and culture. This study aims to examine the SLO concept in Indonesian public high schools. It investigates the extent to which the schools have the learning organisation characteristics, examines the influence of leadership and culture in developing them into learning organisations, and identifies challenges in this development.

Public high school teachers and leaders were involved in this study. An explanatory sequential mixed method design was carried out with a cross-sectional survey in the quantitative phase and a holistic multiple case study in the qualitative phase. A total of 523 respondents from 12 public high schools were involved in the quantitative phase using a convenience sampling design. This was followed by the qualitative phase involving 20 participants from five schools selected using a maximum variation sampling design. The Dimension of Learning Organisation Questionnaire (DLOQ), the School Leadership Questionnaire (SLQ), and the Values Survey Module (VSM) 2013 were employed in the quantitative phase. Meanwhile, interviews, observation, and document analysis were used in the qualitative phase.

The findings of this study showed that all the schools under examination performed moderately as learning organisations. Integrated leadership, which combines transformational and instructional leadership, was indicated to influence the development of SLO. Integrated leadership contributed to SLO by 70.3%, transformational leadership by 68.6%, and instructional leadership by 63.8%. Large power distance, individualism, femininity, weak uncertainty-avoidance, and short-term orientation cultures were identified among the participants. These cultures influenced the development of SLO. The interrelationship between leadership practices and cultural values identified in the best-performing SLO was in line with paternalistic leadership characteristics. Several government policies were found to hinder SLO development.

The study proposes that public high schools should be granted greater autonomy and flexibility to develop as learning organisations. Further research on SLO in the Indonesian context in the broader scope is also suggested.

Item Type:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only) (PhD)
Supervisors:	Too, Wei Keong Chu, Shi Wei
Keywords:	learning organisation, leadership, culture, Indonesia
Subjects:	L Education > LC Special aspects of education
Faculties/Schools:	University of Nottingham, Malaysia > Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Education
Item ID:	78437
Depositing User:	Listyasari, Winda
Date Deposited:	28 Jul 2024 04:40
Last Modified:	28 Jul 2024 04:40
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/78437

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