Review of Empirical Research of School Culture

Sa？etak School culture is one of the indicators of quality and organizational effectiveness of the school, which includes values, norms, beliefs, rituals and school traditions. The quality of school culture affects the quality of the overall way of life in school. The aim of this paper is to present the results of the author's available empirical research in Croatia and in the world in the domain of school culture. The paper analyzes the conclusions of scientific papers that determine the correlation between school culture and some factors of educational work at school: educational achievement of students, violence in schools and deviant behavior of students, wellbeing for teachers, interpersonal relationships in school and the role of director. Given that school culture is a initiator of positive changes within the institution and has a significant impact on all participants in the educational process, the basic purpose of this paper is to consider school culture as an important factor in achieving the quality of the overall life and work in school. By the results of research it can be concluded that only a small number of researches of the school culture were conducted in Croatia, it is necessary to systematically explore the cultures of Croatian schools and to encourage positive changes in the school culture