The Effect of Organizational Culture on Employees' Commitment: In the Case of East Region Dire-Dawa Ethio-Telecom

This paper was examine the effect of organizational culture on employees’ commitment; in the case of Dire-Dawa ethio-telecom. For this purpose, based on Denison's work on organizational culture attributes and Mowday's work on employee commitment, a systematic questionnaire was devised and self-administered to staff in the ethio telecom Office. A total of 199 employees took part in the study and returned fully completed responses. They were selected using simple random sampling technique out of 457 target population. The collected data was examined using inferential and descriptive statistics. The study also show relationship between the four organizational culture variables and employee commitment using correlation analysis. In terms of findings, involvement, adaptability and mission are the variables that have a positive and significant effect (at 5% significant level) on employee’s commitment; while the other consistency seem to have no effect on employee’s commitment. This is an indication that one variable is not statistically significant with the employee’s commitment. Based on the findings of this study, the policy recommendation was forwarded to the management of east region Dire Dawa ethio telecom in terms of promoting employee commitment and enabling the growth of organizational culture