Political, Economical, Social, Cultural and Technological Obstacles in the Schools

Organizational structure forms the interaction and responsibilities among duties, individuals and
resources in an organization. Traditional organizational structures are generally categorized as
functional, separated, strategic work unit, matrix and product set structure. Successful institutions give
importance to informal organizational factors along with formal organizational factors. Informal
organizational factors are mostly people oriented topics. Organizational managers are expected to be
leaders and coordinate the staff in accordance with the organizational purposes in order to use the
material and human resources of the organization rationally. Managers play a fundamental role in
school quality and they have an impact on school and classroom management with the management
approaches they perform. Educational organizations are social open systems and they make great
effort to maintain their existance and to acheve their goals. Despite their effort, some may be defined
as “effective” and some may be called “less effective”. Many research have demonstrated that school
efficacy is not related with financial status but with organizational culture and climate. This section
aimed to determine obstacles in educational organizations through PEST (Political, Economical,
Social and Technological aspects) analysis and to make advisory inferences for future research. This
study is important to reveal the obstacles in the schools and educational organizations. By doing this,
the quality of the school will increase, students’ success will be enhanced and educators will
experience more job satisfaction in their professions. The political obstacles in schools are related to
syndicate, diplomacy, hierarchy, upper management and legislation and the economical obstacles
stem from school budget, personal rights and limited school resources. The social obstacles are
school environment, principal, teacher, student and the issues related to school culture. The
technological obstacles consists of issues related to teaching material and virtual system. The
political, social, cultural, economical and technological obstacles in schools should be eliminated in
order to get the expected efficiency in schools. It can be concluded that political, social, cultural,
economic and technologic obstacles should be reduced in order to obtained desired productivity in
schools.