The Relationship Between Organizational Culture and Teachers’ Job Satisfaction of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Schools in Addis Ababa
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Ethiopia orthodox Tewahido church, in Addition to religious mission, participates in multidimensional developmental Activities. The church is currently involved in rendering education. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between the pattern of organizational culture and teachers’ job satisfaction among employees in EOTC School. A sample of all teachers, who were working in the 2015-2016 academic year in EOTC school were taken for the study from the study school. Data regarding organizational culture and job satisfaction was collected using the OCAI (Cameron & Quinn, 2011), and JSS (Spectors, 1997) respectively. The data was then analyzed by using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) software, version 20. 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 division. The findings of the present study revealed that EOTC school tended to emphasize Clan culture (CC), being the dominant school culture which is characterized like an extended family, loyalty that have shares, values and goals and it focuses on mentoring, nurturing and doing things together. The results of this study also suggest that the CC has a very strong and positive significant influence on overall teacher’s job satisfaction and satisfaction with payment, opportunity for promotion, supervision, work itself and co-workers. The result of the study suggested that to shift to Adhocracy culture (AC), characterized by teachers to be innovative, creative and entrepreneurial
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