Organizational culture and job satisfaction of employees in Indian universities: a comparative study

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2020
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
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Organizational culture is a pattern of shared basic assumptions that was learned by a group of people as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way you perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems. Organizational culture has much more influence on performance of employees by impacting the psychological state of employees and even the whole organization because job satisfaction of employees occupies the important place in the field of human resource management. Faculty of higher education institutes make a big community of this sector. They train, teach and lead their students to work efficiently in the interest of society. Therefore, keeping in view the present scenario of society, educational institutes this study attempts to explore the organizational culture type and to explore the relationship between organizational culture and employees job satisfaction of employees in selected universities. For this study 600 employees were selected from four state agricultural universities and four traditional universities by using simple random sampling technique. Data was collected by using self-structured questionnaire based on Cameroon and Quinn organizational culture model (1991) for organizational culture and Herzbergā€˜s motivation and hygiene theory for job satisfaction. Findings of the study revealed that hierarchy culture was the overall dominant culture followed by clan culture in all selected State Agricultural Universities and Clan culture was the overall dominant culture followed by hierarchy culture in all selected traditional universities. Faculty members from selected state agricultural universities (SAUs) and traditional universities (T.Us) had the medium level of job satisfaction. In conclusion, there is need to follow the organizations beliefs, values and basic assumptions for increasing the productivity, effectiveness and betterment of the organization and there is a need to make certain improvements so that satisfaction of the employees could be increased which can further lead to more productivity.
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