AN ASSESSMENT OF EMPLOYEE’S PERCEPTION ABOUT ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICE: THE CASE STUDY IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH IN ETHIOPIA

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the perception of employees about the relationship between organizational culture with four components named Involvement, Consistency, Adaptability and Mission and performance management practice in Management Sciences for Health- Ethiopia. In addition, the aim was to identify how employees perceive organizational culture in the existing performance management practices. In this study, primary data was collected through questionnaire with sample size of population of 100 employees. The sample includes employees located at regional offices and it consists of both male and female employees of MSH. The gathered data was statically analyzed with SPSS. In the analysis Pearson Correlation was used in order to determine the relationship between the two components. The result shows that there is a positive relationship between organizational culture and performance management practice in MSH. The statistical analysis reflected that Consistency and Adaptability have better correlation to performance management practice in MSH. On the other side Involvement and Mission have weaker relationship with performance management practice. Finally, this thesis concludes that organizational culture influences the performance of an organization.