Relationship between organizational culture and career satisfaction

In spite of the rapid development and change in technology, "human factor" emerges as the most important competitive tool in the globalizing world. Along with growing unemployment rate, the changes in organizational structures cause new expectations for employees. To be able to become a part of the organization as adopted to the organizational culture and to be able to achieve career satisfaction by self-improving has become an important expectation for the employees. Organizational culture and career satisfaction are two concepts closely related to each other. The purpose of this study is to state the effects of Denison's organizational culture model on the career satisfaction of employees. Despite the researches on the relationship between organizational culture and career satisfaction in the literature, it has been deemed necessary to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and career satisfaction because of the limited number of studies investigating the relationship between organizational culture and career satisfaction of Denison. The fact that carrying out the research through a public institution in Turkey is important in terms of demonstrating the current situation and being a descriptive research. Within the scope of the research, the administrators and the working individuals were selected as sample in Provincial Directorate of Labor and Employment Institution of Konya. In this study, the screening model was chosen as the research model. The current situation regarding the organizational culture and career satisfaction has been tested through questionnaire. Correlation and regression analysis were performed to test the hypotheses. As a result of the questionnaire study conducted on 171 people, it was determined that there is a meaningful relationship between the organizational culture and career satisfaction. These results have been evaluated through summarizing and discussed. The study has been terminated with recommendations regarding the implementation. Keywords: Organizational Culture, Employment Services, Career Management, Career Satisfaction.