ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE ON EMPLOYEES’ COMMITMENT: IMPLICATIONS FROM FEDERAL COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHWEST, NIGERIA

Abstract

The norms and values of goal driven organisaton is one of the important factors that affect employee's commitment.For organisaton to thrive well, especially in most of the developing countries such institution must be fair in terms of culture.Therefore, this study determined organisational culture on employee's commitment: implication from Federal Colleges of Agriculture in Southwest Nigeria.Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 180 respondents from Federal College of Agriculture, Akure and Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan through a well-structured questionnaire Data were obtained on respondents' personal characteristics, organisational culture and levels of employees' commitment.Data were analysed using descriptive (percentage, frequency count and mean), and inferential (Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression statistics.Results revealed that 56.1% of the respondents were male, 85% were married, and 96.7% were first degree holders with a mean age and monthly income of 38.7 years and ₦119,284.30respectively.Results also showed that leadership culture (̅ = 3.83), norms and values (̅ = 3.77) were identified as the most common organisational cultures existing in the study institutions.Furthermore, personal factors (ß = 0.77, p < 0.05), workloads (ß = -0.24,p < 0.01), norms and values (ß = 1.23, p <. 0.05) were significantly related to employee's job commitment.The study concluded that excessive workload significant influenced employees' commitment.Improvement on norms and values o that will ease excessive workload among the employees is highly recommended.