The effect of organizational culture on organizational commitment

The main purpose of this study is to determine organizational culture perception and preference of the employees to whom the questionnaire is applied and to identify the effects of organizational culture on organizational commitment.The study is composed of three main parts. First and second parts consist of theoretical framework which explains the concept of organizational culture and organizational commitment. In the third part, a survey aiming to identify the effect of organizational culture on organizational commitment in a public organization is examined.Related to the purpose of this study, a questionnaire consisting of three parts has been prepared. Harrison organizational culture scale and Allen-Meyer organizational commitment scale are used in the questionnaire. The third part includes questions about the demographic variables of the employees (age, gender, education and working period/type).The research result is evaluated by SPSS 15 software. According to the result of the study, the current organizational culture model is stated as role-oriented model and the employees settle task-oriented model as a preferred organizational culture model.Due to the research results, significant relationship between power-oriented culture and normative commitment, role-oriented culture and normative and continuance commitment, task-oriented culture and emotional commitment, people-oriented and nomative commitment is determined.Key Words: Organizatioanl culture, organizational commitment.