Organizational Climate and Employees’ Organizational Commitment In Midroc Construction Ethiopia

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2018-06

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Addis Ababa University

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This research explores the relationship between organization climate and organization commitments in general. Effects of organizational climate dimensions on organizational commitment in particular. This study helps to see organizational climate experienced in Midroc construction Ethiopia and fill the gap that currently exists in the areas of the relationship between organization climate and organization commitment research. In this research Likert type questionnaire were used to collect primary data and the study uses a means of quantitative research and administered to a sample of 170 employees at head office and selected three construction projects in Addis Ababa. Organizational climate and employees’ organizational commitment questionnaire was adopted from Bekele Serbessa, (2014) and Dr Thomas F. Bergess, (2001). In analyzing the collected data, Correlation and regression analysis was conducted for six dimensions of organizational climate and three dimensions of organizational commitment. According to this analysis, there was a poor positive correlation between organizational climate dimensions and Commitment. Therefore, the study doesn’t support the six research hypothesis except the one associated with support dimension. The result show that all organizational climate factors are not significantly contribute to organizational commitment of employees. Based on this it can be concluded that the change in organizational commitment is poorly explained by organizational climate.

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A Thesis Submitted to school of Graduate studies of Addis Ababa University for Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Master in Business Administration in Management

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Organizational climate, Organizational commitment

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