THE RELATIONSHIP OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE
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UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK
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This study aims to determine the relationship between organizational culture which consists of Hostede’s four cultural dimensions; power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism vs collectivism and femininity vs masculinity and employees’ performance. This study has been conducted by using a quantitative correlational research design with a self-administered questionnaire distributed to 169 employees in the public sector organization sector at Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. The sample size was determined by using Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table. The data obtained was analysed by using IBM Statistical Package for Social Science SPSS version 26.0. Descriptive statistics used to analyse demographic information of respondents followed by Pearson correlation analysis.The study has found out that there is a significant relationship between organizational culture and employees’ performance. The result of Pearson correlation shows that there is positive relationship between power distance with r = 0.589 and p<0.05, uncertainty avoidance with r = 0.621 and p<0.05, individualism vs collectivism with r = 0.586 and p<0.05 and femininity vs masculinity with r = 0.561 and p<0.05 towards employees’ performance. The study also recommended the public sector organisation to pay more attention to the factor that stimulate employees’ job performance. Based on the findings, recommendations were made for human resource managers, organization and future researcher.The organization is encouraged to cultivate empowerment culture and to recognise the achievement of employee while future researchers should explore on variety of cultural dimension of organization to enhance employee performance and human resource development.