INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE AT UNIVERSITY OF JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN.

Abstract

Background:

The objective of the study was to examine the influences of organizational culture on employee performance at the University of Juba.

Methodology: 

A descriptive survey research design was adopted using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The study targeted 109 respondents but 82 returned the survey questions, indicating a response rate of 75 percent. A simple random sampling technique was used to select Academic Staff and Support Staff while purposive sampling was used to select the University Management Staff, and stratified sampling was used to select the Administrative Staff.

Results;

The majority 33(40.2%) of the respondents were educated up to the Master‘s degree level, 24(29.3%) were educated up to the Bachelor‘s degree level and 7 (8.5%) were educated up to the Ph.D. Findings revealed a positive relationship (r=0.278, sig=0.011) between organizational culture and employee performance.

Conclusion:

Organizational culture positively affected the performance of employees at the University of Juba in one way or the other.

Recommendation: 

The university management should build and improve on teamwork and develop the current leadership to maintain the culture