ASSESMENT OF ORGNAZATIONAL CULTURE : THE CASE OF DASHEN BANK SHARE COMPANY

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to assess organizational culture practice in Dashen Bank Share Company. Researcher employedquestionnaires sample approach to see the applicability of cultural dimension in Dashen Bank Share Company and interview are employed to answer those research questions (i.e. what is the existingcultural trend in Dashen Bank, what is employees attitude toward to organizational culture of Dashen Bank and to what existent is the company’s management sensitive to those cultures) raised by the researcher at the beginning of this paper. Organizational culture questionnaires’ OCQ (organizational culture questions) part adopted from Anas (2009) with some modification made to the study context: and its reliability was tested in pilot study and interview was employed to collect data from the management side. The researcher took 204 sample respondent from four district with in this four district with their population size and “A” branch grade eight branch are chosen, i.e. Piazza, Golla, and Tana, Mesalemia, Bole, BoleMedihanialem, Saris and Yarer branch. From 204 sample respondent 191 questionnaires was returned which gives a response rate of 93.6%. Sampling methods applied was purposive sampling. The data analysis was conducted by employing different statisticaltechniques’. Based on the finding researcher conclude that assessed cultural dimension of the company shows that the company has exhibited poor performance. To overcome this problem the researcher forwards some recommendationi.e. the organization must give work autonomy for its employees, information must be readily available for employees of the bank and continually update those information ,give due attention for tasks preformed by the employees simply focusing on the final outcome, task must be assigned to the group of people instead of individually and the company’s should develop acceptable degree of aggressiveness’.