Organizational Culture and Academic Staff Job Satisfaction at St. Mary’s University College

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to examine and to gain a better appreciation of the relationships between the pattern of organizational culture and employees’ job satisfaction among academic staff in a private higher educational institution context. A census of all academic staff, who were working in the 2010-2011 Academic Year in St. Mary’s University College, were taken for the study from the study Organization. Data regarding organizational culture and job satisfaction was collected using the OCAI (Cameron & Quinn, 1999), and Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (Weiss, Davis, England, & Lofquist, 1967) respectively. The data was then analyzed by using the latest version of statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) software. Two types of statistics, namely, descriptive and inferential statistics were employed. While the research was expected to leverage on such descriptive statistical tools as frequency, mean, percentile and standard deviation, it also applied inferential statistics through analysis of variance (ANOVA), spearman rho correlations and ordinal regression model analysis. The findings of the present study revealed that SMUC tended to emphasize hierarchy culture. The results of this study also suggest that the hierarchy culture has a negative significant influence on overall teacher’s job satisfaction and satisfaction with intrinsic, extrinsic and general satisfaction facets. Thus, since hierarchy culture negatively affects morale of instructors, it is then recommended that the University College should diagnose and change its organizational culture as it is desired by its staff. The desired culture type in most universities is clan culture which is characterized by people-orientation, encouragement, equitability, trust, and by allowing of greater academic freedom. Underpinned by a model adapted to the research purpose, the study complemented not only to the existing knowledge in the area, but it also contributed to the fact that there was no research made in non-western countries like Ethiopia over this interesting and potentially rich area.