Organizational Culture and Employees’ Performance: A Case Study of Independent General Directorate of Kochies (Nomads) in Afghanistan

Abstract

The aim of the study is to examine the positive relationshipbetween organizational culture and employees’ performance. The studyfurther assessed the impact of five facets of organizational culture onemployees’ job performance. The study used an adapted questionnaire forthe purpose of data collection. All the staff of the Independent GeneralDirectorate of Kochies (IGDK) at the central office was taken as thesample. The result of the Pearson correlation revealed a positiverelationship between organizational culture and employees’ jobperformance. The result of regression analysis revealed that the four facetsof organizational culture namely managing change, achieving goals,coordinating teamwork and cultural strength positively and significantlycontributed towards employees’ performance whereas the fifth facetclients’ orientation does not contribute towards employee performance. Asa majority of the available literature on the topic in hand was carried outin the developed countries, therefore, this research tried to assess it in thecontext of developing countries like Afghanistan.