The Effect of Organizational Culture on Employees’ Commitment:

A Case of Selected Dire Dawa Administration Public Organization

Abstract

This study aims to see the effect of organizational culture on employee commitment in a public organization. The commitment of employees has been a major factor in determining an organization's success. In order to retain more employees and boost success, productivity, and effectiveness, organizations are becoming more and more interested in the topic of employee commitment. Examining how organizational culture affects employees' commitment in the Case of Selected Dire Dawa Administration Public organization was the primary goal of this study. To attain this objective research designs was used to gather quantitative data. The data collection instruments were close ended questionnaire through the use of standardized questionnaires measuring organizational culture and employees’ commitment. Primary and secondary data was used. From the population of 518, to obtain participants, first, using stratified and random sampling of 226 employees was sampled. The quantitative data was analyzed with the aid of SPSS. The findings of the study were that, in public organizations, employee commitment is strongly and significantly influenced by supportive cultures and achievement culture. The findings also showed that, role culture and power culture have significant effect on employee commitment, but power culture was negatively correlated with employee commitment. Thus, among other factors for raising the employee commitment level of the public organization, the findings recommend DDASP organization to give proper consideration for organizational culture to have committed employee.