Organiza Tional Culture and Academic Staff Job Satisfaction At St. Mary's Universitycollege
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2011-04
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to examine and gain a better appreciation of the relationships
between the paltern of organizational culture and employees ' job satisfaction among academic
staffs in a private higher educational institution context. A census of all academic staffs, who
were working in the 2010-2011 academic year, were taken for the study from the study
organization- St. Mary's University College. Data regarding organizational culture and job
satisfaction was collected using the OCAl (Cameron & Quinn, 1999), and Minnesota Job
Satisfaction Questionnaire (Weiss, Davis, England & Lofquist, 1967), respectively. The Data was
then analyzed by using the latest version of statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS)
software. Two types of statistics, namely descriptive and inferential statistic was employed. While
the research was expected to leverage on such descriptive statistical tools as pequency, mean,
percentile and standard deviation, it also applied inferential statistics through anova, spearman
rho correlations and ordinal regreSSion model analysis. The findings of the present study
revealed SMUC tended to emphasize hierarchy culture. The results of this study also suggest that
the hieraichy culture has a negative significant influence on overall teacher's job satisfaction
and satisfaction with intrinsic, extrinsic and general satisfaction facets. Thus, since hierarchy
culture negatively affects morale of instructors, it is then recommended that the university college
should diagnose and change its organizational culture as it is desired by its staff The desired
culture type in most universities is clan culture which is characterized by people-orientation,
encouragement, equitability, trust, and allowing of greater academic peedom. Underpinned by a
model adapted to the research purpose, the study complemented not only to the existing
knowledge in the area, but it also contributed to the fact that there was no research made in nonwestern
countries like Ethiopia over this interesting and potentially rich area.
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relationships between the paltern of organizational culture