Organizational Culture and its Impacts on Employee Job Performance

Abstract

The purpose of any organization is to enhance level of performance by designing different strategies which would help employees achieve high level of performance. This study tried to make an assessment on the impact of organizational culture on employee job performance by going through detailed reviews of previous researches. Literature review was used to conduct the study; hence, detail reviews of relevant literatures were made. The findings of this study revealed conclusive evidence in the sense that the reviewed literatures all indicated organizational culture as having very important effect on employee job performance. It was also identified that organizational culture determines the productivity level of organizations. Certain dimension of cultures actually identified to affect employee performance in particular ways in the sense that strong culture of an organization helps in improving level of employee performance more than others. Managers relate organizational culture to employee performance as they help in providing competitive advantage to their firms.