Organizations should revise their structures and make necessary changes on them in order to survive in the competitive condition of the present day in which there is a rapid change in terms of economy, sociology and technology. Accurate determination of the organizational structure which has got an important effect on individual’s and group’s behavior has got  a role that can not be underestimated to achieve the purpose of the orgasnization. It is necessary for an effective leader to know the the structure and structural features of the organization well. It is not enough for an organization to have a well-defined structure because if the organization is not healthy, well-defined structure becomes disfunctional.The changes on the structure of an organization will have effective results if the organization is healthy as the healthy organizations can accommodate the changes around them easily.

As it is understood, both the organizational structure and the organizational health are two important concepts for an organization to be able  to accommodate the changes around and survive. In this study, it is assumed that organizational structure and organizational health are related to each other and the structure formed in an organization affects the organizational health.

A healty organization was defined by Miles “organization which not only survives in its environment, but continues to cope adequately over the long haul, and continuously develops and extends its surviving and coping abilities” (Miles, 1965: 17).

Structure is the characteristics of the enduring, more or less permanent, patterns of operation of an organization. It refers to the relations between different roles that have been created to achieve the purposes of the organization and define objectively who can tell whom to do what (Bishop and George, 1973: 67).

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationships between elementary school teachers’ perceptions towards organizational structure and organizational health of their school. . For this purpose four basic research questions have been asked:

1. What is the teachers’ perceptions towards structural properties of their schools?

2. What is the teachers’ perceptions towards organizational health of their schools?

3. What is the relationships between organizational structure and organizational health of elementary schools as perceived by teachers?

4. What is the predictiveness of organizational health related to teachers’ perceptions towards organizational structure of their schools?

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