Investigating the Relationship between Organizational Culture and Employees Job Satisfaction

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the dimensionsof organizational culture and employee job satisfaction at Islamic Azad University(IAU) which is located at Iran, region one. The population comprised of all employees of 31 branches of IAU located at region one. Data was collected by structuredquestionnaire, designed based on the Robbins’ 10 criteria indexes, through 550respondents who selected randomly through clustering sampling. Two types of statistical testing were employed, descriptive and inferential statistics. Correlation analysis was used to test the relationships between dimensions of organizational cultures with job satisfaction. The results showed that there is a significant and positive relationship between organization identity, managerial support, risk taking ability, participation, organizational communication, control and organizational integrationwith job satisfaction. However, the relationship between individual creativity, conflictand reward system with job satisfaction was not supported in this study. The result ofthis study is useful for managers to increase productivity in the company by the factorsof organizational culture