The effect of organizational culture on job satisfaction: A research on nurses

Today, it is thought that the effective organizational culture in businesses will affect the job satisfaction of the employees positively, their commitment to the organization will increase and as a result, the success of the business will increase. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between organizational culture and job satisfaction. The research population of this study consists of 496 nurses working at Datu Beru Takengon General Hospital. In the study, it was aimed to reach all nurses without selecting a sample. However, not all nurses could be reached due to time, energy and cost increase. The sample of the study consists of 221 nurses working at Datu Beru Takengon General Hospital. The "Organizational Culture Scale" developed by RimaHandayani (2011) and the "Job Satisfaction Scale" developed by Weiss, Dawis, England, and Lofquist (1967) were used as data collection tools in the study. As a result of the analysis, it is seen that there is a significant relationship between organizational culture and job satisfaction, this relationship is positive and linear. In other words, as the perception of organizational culture improves, job satisfaction also increases. Another result obtained from the research is that there is a positive and statistically significant relationship between internal satisfaction and external satisfaction and organizational culture scale's dimensions of innovation and risk taking, attention to detail, results orientation, people orientation, team orientation, aggression, and stability. In other words, the higher the nurses' organizational culture perception, the higher the job satisfaction level..