Organizational Culture and Subculture Effect on Organizational Commitment: A Research on Health Employees

This research has been held about the organizational culture and subculture effect on organizational commitment. The population of the research involves 93 health employees working at a Training and Research Hospital in Ankara (doctor, nurse and administrative stuff). The data set used for the research consists of two parts as Porter’s Organizational Commitment Scale and Index of Organization Culture designed by Wallach. The Cronbach Alpha values of the scales used in this research is found to be in acceptable ranges. The effect of organization culture on commitment is analyzed under three sub – aspects as supporter, bureaucratic and improver. According to the research results, the sub – aspects of the organization culture explain 34% of the total variance concerning the organizational commitment of the health employees. As examining the t-test results about meaningfulness of regression factor in Regression model, the only meaningful relation is observed in organization culture. The perception of health employees about supportive organizational culture raises their organizational commitment statistically.