The effect of organizational culture on employee performance: the case of Ethiopian institute of agricultural research
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2020-01
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A.A.U
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to assess employee’s perception on the effect of organizational
culture on employee performance in Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research. The specific
objectives of the study were to determine the relationship between organizational culture types
namely clan culture, adhocracy culture, market culture, and hierarchy culture with employee
performance in Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research. The research design adopted for
this study was a case study in which the research pursued to collect data from a target
population of employees working in EIAR, using survey questionnaire. This study used two
sampling stage. The first one is to sample out the research centers and secondly a number of
respondents within the research centers. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select the
research centers (Jimma, Debrezeit, & Holleta) within Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural
Research including Headquarter. The target populations contained 1850 employees from threeresearch
centers and headquarter of the study organization. A sample size of 327 was drawn
from the overall target population and out of those, 302 responses were valid for analysis.
Descriptive Statistics, Pearson correlation, and Regression analysis were carried out to analyze
the data by using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS IBM version 20). The results show
that clan culture was the dominant culture type in the institute. In addition, this study found that
all organizational culture types namely clan culture, adhocracy culture, market culture and
hierarchy culture were a significant and a positive relationship with employee performance.
According to regression analysis result, clan culture is the most contributing organizational
culture types followed by adhocracy culture, market culture and hierarchy culture in the
prediction of employee performance in the institute respectively.
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A Thesis Submitted to Addis Ababa University, College of Business and
Economics, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science in Management, Specialization in Innovation Management
and Entrepreneurship
Keywords
Adhocracy culture, Clan culture, Employee performance, Organizational culture