| Abstract: | The study was planned to assess the Organizational Culture at Ethiopian Railways Corporation.
There are a number of organizational culture dimensions, for this study innovative culture,
aggressive culture, outcome oriented culture, stable culture, people oriented culture, team
oriented culture and attention to detail culture are selected. To achieve the previously
announced objective, study data were collected from employees of the Corporation who are
working at Head Quarter and Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (AALRT) by way of structured
questionnaire. The validity of the developed questionnaire was tested by communicating with the
advisor and to measure its reliability Cronbach Alpha were applied. Total number of target
population was 1600 out of which 200 were determined to be sample respondents. From the
distributed 200 questionnaire 90% (180) were collected and out of those collected only 173 were
successfully filled and returned to the researcher, the rest 7 were incomplete or entirely not
filled. Descriptive statistics and frequencies were applied to analyze the data and mean and
percentage are used to interpret the data collected. The findings of the study show that though
employees are expected to in accordance with the instructions given from their supervisors, the
Corporation as a company is behind in building attention to the detail culture. The Corporation
in general is good in team oriented culture, as the response implies most respondents have
agreed that there is team oriented culture. Therefore, team oriented culture is a dominant culture
of the Corporation. But in the Corporation modeling those who work in team is not practiced. As
the response indicated employee turnover is relatively low when compared to other companies.
This is a golden opportunity for the Corporation has to build the intended culture and enhance
productivity and innovation. The Corporation has to consider its employees as valuable asset.
Hence, the researcher generally recommends, Ethiopian Railways Corporation has to stress on
productivity, innovation, cooperation and work discipline. |
