The importance of human relationships is a valuable trend in the area of organizational effectiveness. Using this concept of culture, some evidence exists which supports the idea of differential outcomes in organizational effectiveness, but they are not specifically related to educational contexts. An exploratory study is proposed to identify possible perceived links between professional culture and teaching effectiveness among faculty members.
Results show that there is a frequent connection between perceived institutional goals and culture perception at the same time that an interesting variability of teaching models that could be associated with culture elements as well. Although these results support the idea of perceived dependence between culture and effectiveness, further research could ratify these associations and probably link perceived effectiveness with behavioral indicators of that evaluation.