Abstract:
This research paper discuss the effect of organizational culture on employees’ performance in
case of commercial Bank of Ethiopia in merkato District. It views organizational culture as the
pattern of values, norms, beliefs, attitudes and assumptions that may not have been articulate
but shape the ways in which people behave and get things done. The aim of this study is to
assess and examine the effect of organizational culture on employee’s performance in
commercial Bank of Ethiopia Merkato District. The conceptual frame work is design, taking
organizational culture as independent variables and employee performance as dependent
variable. The thesis would adopts explanatory research with quantitative and qualitative
research approach. The organizational culture questionnaire is adopted from Denison (1990)
and the employee performance questionnaire is adopted from Onyango (2014).Prior pilot test is
conduct and validity and reliability of the questionnaire is determine before data collection. The
study was take target populations with response rate of 167 respondents. Both inferential and
descriptive analyses are used to see the relationship and effect of independent variables on
dependent variable. Based on the analysis, there is a positive and significant relationship
between the four variables of organizational culture (adoptability, mission and vision,
consistency and involvement culture) and employee performance. based on the research
findings and research conclusions ,major recommendations would offered for possible
consideration by CBE Merkato District. Which are mostly related to capability development,
performance management system and coordination and integration. Employees’ performance
management should be strengthened more and the relationship of performance management
system with capability development should be aligned. This should be done through training
and development need assessment that brought from the performance management system.
Regular feed backing and coaching are also very important.
