ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE JOB PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF ETHIOPIAN CONSTRUCTION WORKS CORPORATION

Abstract

Organizational culture has a great deal of effect on the variety of organization processes, employees and their performance. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and employee job performance at Ethiopian construction works corporation. The research employed explanatory deign along with quantitative approach. Data was collected from 125 employees selected through simple random sampling. Organizational culture was measured by using a questionnaire adopted from Daniel Denison (2000). Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis. The result indicates that involvement, consistency, adaptability and mission dimensions of organizational culture have significant positive impact on employee performance. So, organizations should endeavor to promote the cultural dimension of involvement and consistency as the dominant one, while the correlation also shows that involvement and consistency cultural dimensions has a high correlation with employee job performance as compared to the other remaining OC dimensions. And also the study recommends that ECWC should provide effective integration & coordination of system among departments, continuous development of their employee’s skills and capacity, work teams among employees, improvement in the reward system and improvement of internal communication channels and employees participation in decision making in order produce good performance.