Bekalu, Wubshet (PhD)Atfraw, Hana2019-10-312023-11-042019-10-312023-11-042019-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/19757The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of four organizational culture traits namely, involvement, consistency, adaptability and mission on employee performance in Berhan International Bank s.c. Based on the work of Denison on organization culture traits, a structured questionnaire was developed and self-administered to employees of Berhan International Bank s.c to collect explanatory data. Since the research is descriptive in nature quantitative method was used. A total of 161 employees participated in the study and the data’s were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results show that the four traits measuring organizational culture were all positively related with employee’s performance within the range of r=0.634 to r=0.738. Moreover, adaptability is the most contributing organizational culture traits in the prediction of employee performance with beta value .376. The other three organizational culture traits, in their descending order of standardized coefficients are involvement, mission and consistency. Furthermore, statistically significant of the four organizational culture traits: adaptability and involvement indicate that there is significant relationship with employees’ performance. However, consistency and mission doesn’t have significant effect on employee performance as it is explained by significance level p>0.05. The implications of the findings were discussed and recommendations made. From the study organizational culture has positive relation with employee performance. Having this the organization should do a frequent cultural audit so that to perform better and be competitiveen-USOrganizational cultureinvolvement, consistencyadaptabilityThesis