Organizational Culture and Commitment among Public and Private High School Teachers in Gondar City

Abstract

The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between organizational culture and organizational commitment among public and private high schools in Gondar city. The study used a quantitative cross sectional design. To collect data 200 participants consisting of 146 public school teachers and 54 private school teachers were selected using stratified random sampling. They completed a questioner that comprises organizational culture assessment instrument and organizational commitment scale. Accordingly, organizational culture and organizational commitment had a significant positive relationship revealed public high schools dominant organizational culture is hierarchy culture SD=1.72

high affective commitment continuance commitment SD=2.40 significant positive relationship and there is a difference in organizational culture and commitment across private and public school teachers. Hence, this study strongly recommends, schools need to take important characters from organizational culture dimensions in order to bring a better teachers commitment.