Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of organizational culture on teachers’ job satisfaction in
General Secondary Schools of Horo Guduru Wollega Zone of Oromiya Regional state (HGWZO ).
Among the 28 General secondary schools,8 of them were selected using multistate sampling through
simple random sampling technique (lottery method) .Accordingly,8 General Secondary Schools were
selected from 4 woredas .Besides,264 teacher respondents for questionnaires and 2 Principals, 3 viceprincipals, 2 secondary school supervisors and 2 heads of woreda Educational Office participants were
selected for interview. Questionnaire was the main instrument of data collection. Interview and
document analysis were used to substantiate the data gathered through questionnaires. Data analysis was
performed by using SPSS software version 20 and employed descriptive statistics that included frequency,
percentage, mean through interview and document analysis, and standard deviations. Correlation
coefficient also used to compare the effects of organizational culture on teachers job satisfaction. The
qualitative data obtained were analyzed using narration. The results of the study revealed that
organizational culture factors such as: lack of recognitions, encouragements, high workloads and low
incentives, lack of organizational communication, problem of the rules and procedures of the schools
and inefficient leaderships highly affected teachers job satisfaction . Finally, recommendations were
drawn based on the above findings. The point of the recommendations includes WEO are recommended
to arrange free discussion from time to time among teachers, principals, school committees and with
outside communities to develop the culture of open communication system in schools. In order to create
conductive teaching learning process, WEO advised to select school leaders carefully according to their
ability who could develop supportive organizational culture. Finally, School leaders recommended
creating supportive organizational culture that focus on organizational culture related to employees and
exercise such activities which may raise the level of cooperation, mutual trust, respect of opinions and
thoughts of teachers and open mindedness to seek and accept feedback among them.
