Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to explain the relationship between organizational culture and its
influence on employee’s organizational affective commitment using Cameron and Quinn
(2006) Competing Value Framework for the independent variable and Meyer and Allen (1990)
employees’ commitment questionnaire (ECQ) for the only dependent variable of affective
commitment. Being a quantitative research approach in nature, this study used crosses
sectional survey and correlation as its research strategy. It takes professional employees of
commercial banks (both private and public) particularly at Bahir Dar city as its target
population. Of the total population 738 professional employees, 260 were selected using a
proportional stratified sampling method. The above standardized questionnaires were used
after being modified to fit to the local context. The test and re-test of reliability of
measurements conducted to test for the standardized questionnaires shows 0.948. Selfadministered
questionnaires
were
distributed
to
260
employees,
but
only
245
are
legitimate
for
data
execution and valid for analysis using SPSS version 21. The Pearson correlation
coefficients shows that the four factors measuring organizational culture (Clan, adhocracy,
market and hierarchy) were all positively and strongly related with employees affective
commitment within the range of 0.555 to 0.602 and all were significant at p<0.01 level. The
dominant organizational culture of the industry, from the highest to the lowest, was
hierarchy, market, clan and adhocracy respectively. Employees were above-average level
of affective commitment affectively committed with a mean value of 3.6495. The regression
result indicted that only clan type of organizational culture has a strong positive and
significant
effect on employees’ affective commitment. However, adhocracy, market and
hierarchical types of culture have positive and insignificant effect on the employee’s affective
commitment. In general the result of the finding indicates that clan organizational culture has a
contribution for the variability of employees’ affective organizational commitment. The
industry should integrate the strategic development of human resource (in the short, medium
and long term basis) for the improvement of employees’ affective commitment.