Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of organizational culture on employees’ commitment case of commercial bank of Ethiopia in Jimma district. The study adopted a quantitative research approach and the nature of the study was descriptive and explanatory. Stratified and simple random probability sampling design was used. The total sample of the study was 290 respondents with a response rate of 91.03%. The primary data needed for this purpose is collected using structured questionnaires and secondary data is collected from published or unpublished annual report and journal articles. In this study both descriptive and inferential statistics such as mean, standard deviation, correlation, and multiple regression analysis was used through SPSS Version 20 software. Based on the findings, mission had stronger positive and statistically significant effect on employees‟ commitment. The other three organizational culture dimensions; adaptability, consistency and involvement were ranked depending on their correlation level from most correlated positive and statistically significant effect on employees‟ commitment. Relatively, involvement was less positively correlated with employees‟ commitment. Besides, the highest accumulated mean score of mission also exposed that employees strongly agreed with the measure of mission. Based on this finding the study recommended that, the organization has to continue in communicating its mission and vision to newly hired employees consistently and safeguard employees recognize, internalize and work towards the attainment of the goals of the organization
