FAKIR BAYKURT’S ASPECT OF THE CHANGE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF VILLAGE INSTITUTES

In this study, it is aimed to determine what kind of properties show up in the organizational culture of Village Institutes in two different phase, one is the time before multiparty came into the political life of the country and the other is after the multiparty term. It is tried to be established how the “values”, “artifacts” and “administrative practices” dimensions of organizational culture changes. Ceremonies, symbols and the language usage from the artifacts are dealt with. The research is conducted as a case study and single holistic case study design is used. As a workplace, Gönen Village Institutes is chosen and the data are collected from the book by Fakir Baykurt called “The Teenager in Village Institute” in which he talks about his studentship years in Gönen Village Institute and which is the second book of eight volumes of his autobiography. It is found that there was a strong organizational culture in the years before 1946; that there had been a great change in the organizational culture in terms of artifacts and administrative practices depending on the chance of the administrator.