The Effect of Organizational Culture on Organizational Performance: The Case of Abune Gorgorios Schools
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2024-07
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Addis Ababa University
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This study proposes to examine the influence of organizational culture on organizational performance in the case of Abune Gorgorios schools, Addis Ababa. Organizational culture variables namely; Involvement, consistency, Adaptability, and Mission are taken as independent variables and organizational performance served as dependent variable. The study employed a quantitative research methodology that was both descriptive and explanatory in its approach. This study proposes a total sample of 236 respondents with a response rate of 191 respondents consisting of school principal, management staff, teachers and support staff of organizations in Addis Ababa. Both inferential and descriptive statistics were applied in this study. The researcher utilized surveys to collect primary data for the study. All the data analysis was operated through the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 to determine the relationship and the effect of variables. The findings reveal that organizational culture affects organizational performance directly and significantly as all cultural dimensions except involvement namely; mission, adaptability and consistency have shown significant and direct impact but involvement affects insignificant impact though positively related with organizational performance. However, mission, adaptability and consistency cultures were dominant form of cultures which have shown more impact than involvement cultures. Involvement culture was moderate relationship with organizational performance. The finding of the study shows that mission culture was the dominant culture of Abune Gorgorios schools. The study found that organizational culture has a significant impact on overall performance.
KEYWORDS: ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; INVOLVEMENT, CONSISTENCY, ADAPTABILITY, MISSION, ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE.