The Effect Of Organizational Culture On Employee Commitment The Case Of Ethiopian Airlines Company

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of four organizational culture traits namely, involvement, consistency, adaptability and mission on employee commitment in Ethiopian Airlines Company. Based on the work of Denison on organization culture traits and Mowday on employee commitment, a structured questionnaire was developed and self-administered to employees in Ethiopian Airlines Company. A total of 284 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 commitment within the range of r=0.530 to r=0.641. Moreover, adaptability is the most contributing organizational culture traits in the prediction of employee commitment with beta value .386. The other three organizational culture traits, in their descending order of standardized coefficients are mission, involvement and consistency. Furthermore, statistically significant of the three organizational culture traits: adaptability, mission, and involvement, indicate that there is significant relationship with employees’ commitment. However, consistency doesn’t have significant effect on employee commitment as it is explained by significance level p>0.05. The implications of the findings were discussed and recommendations made.rnKeywords: Organizational culture, involvement, consistency, adaptability, mission, and employee commitment

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