The Advantages of Organizational Culture in Greek Banks

The job satisfaction is associated with many factors. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between organizational culture and job satisfaction. This study tries to explore if organization culture in Greek banks can increase job satisfaction of employees. For the measurement of job satisfaction in the present study, the Employee Satisfaction Inventory -ESI was used and Greek employees are the participants. The study included 20 items, which measure six dimensions of job satisfaction: 1. Working conditions (5 items), 2. Salary (4 items), 3. Promotions (3 items), 4. Work itself (4 items), 5. Immediate superior (4 items). The assessment of organizational culture was performed with the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) developed by Cameron and Quinn [3]. It included six questions (Dominant Characteristics, Organizational Leadership, Management of Employees, Organizational Glue, Strategic Emphases, Criteria of Success). Each question had four alternatives (A=Clan, B=Adhocracy, C=Market, D=Hierarchy). According to the results, organizational culture seems to have a rather moderating role in the prediction of employees’ job satisfaction. For this reason, more studies are needed, so that Greek bank employees’ job satisfaction is being well studied and promoted.