The Impact of Organizational Climate on Job Satisfaction of Academic Staff: The Case of Selected Private Universities in Addis Ababa City
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2015
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Addis Ababa University
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The success, functioning and sustainability of any higher education institution are greatly influenced by the extent to which the careers of academic staff are successfully managed along all the demands and changes. As past researchers confirmed, more than any other type of organization, higher education institutions are dependent on the intellectual capital and commitment of their staff. That means, in order to be benefited from the production of Higher Learning Institutions, the existence of satisfied academic staff should be in place. In other words, it is the satisfied employee who can be more committed for the achievement of end results of organizations than the unsatisfied one. The objective of the study is to examine the impact of organizational climate on job satisfaction of academic staff the case of private universities found in Addis Ababa city. The study identifies seven dimensions of organizational climate (leadership and management, participation in decision making, pay and benefit, over all human relation, working condition, employee wellness ad corporate image) and investigates their influence on job satisfaction. To do so, the study has employed a cross-sectional study design with an explanatory and descriptive design in interpretation of the data collected through self-administered questionnaire. Accordingly, three private universities have been taken as the study sample through stratified sampling method. A randomly selected 240 instructors were participated in the study whose academic rank ranges from professor to graduate assistant. The analysis is made by making use of descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, multiple regression model and ANOVA. It was found out that the academic staffs have positive perception about their organizational climate but they have neutral feeling to their job. All selected organizational climate factors has positive relationship with job satisfaction. Among them participation in decision making, pay and benefit, human relation, employee wellness, leadership and management and corporate image are significant predictor of job satisfaction. Working condition was found out to be insignificant in explaining the variation in the level of job satisfaction. This implies that when the above factors are fulfilled working condition is a least wanted facility. In addition, it was revealed that the perception of organizational climate and level of job satisfaction does not significantly vary with different experience and job level of the staff. With the revealed findings, it was recommended to the universities to improve leadership and management and pay and benefit practices and to give more focus to other factors than working condition.
Key words: Academic Staffs, Organizational climate dimensions, Job Satisfaction, Private Universities.
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Academic Staffs, Organizational climate dimensions, Job Satisfaction, Private Universities