| Abstract: | The main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of four organizational culture
variables namely, clan, adhocracy, market and hierarchy on job satisfaction in Nib international
bank at head office. For a long time organizational culture has been considered important to
organizations. However, research on organizational culture has been relatively narrow in scope
and frequently failed to link organizational culture to job satisfaction. The study was based on an
descriptive and explanatory survey design. More or less the study had used quantitative
approaches. A structured questionnaire was used to measure the level of organization culture and
job satisfaction. A total of 180 employees participated in the study. Data were collected using
questionnaires then after it was analyzed by using statistical package for the social sciences
(SPSS) software 27. It was analyzed by employing descriptive and inferential statistics. While the
research was expected to leverage on such descriptive statistical tools as frequency, mean,
percentile and standard deviation, it also applied inferential statistics through anova, pearson
correlations and linear regression model analysis The results show that the four variables
measuring organizational culture were all positively related with job satisfaction. Moreover,
adhocracy culture is the most contributing organizational culture variable in the prediction of job
satisfaction. The other three organizational culture variables, in their descending order of
standardized coefficients are clan, hierarchy and market.. Furthermore, statistically significant of
the three organizational culture variables: adhocracy, clan and hierarchy indicate that they have
positive effect on job satisfaction. However, the variable which is market culture have
insignificant but positive effect on job satisfaction. The implications of the findings were discussed
and recommendations made |
