Organizational Culture and Employees’ Performance: A Case Study of Independent General Directorate of Kochies (Nomads) in Afghanistan

The aim of the study is to examine the positive relationship between organizational culture and employees’ performance. The study further assessed the impact of five facets of organizational culture on employees’ job performance. The study used an adapted questionnaire for the purpose of data collection. All the staff of the Independent General Directorate of Kochies (IGDK) at the central office was taken as the sample. The result of the Pearson correlation revealed a positive relationship between organizational culture and employees’ job performance. The result of regression analysis revealed that the four facets of organizational culture namely managing change, achieving goals, coordinating teamwork and cultural strength positively and significantly contributed towards employees’ performance whereas the fifth facet clients’ orientation does not contribute towards employee performance. As a majority of the available literature on the topic in hand was carried out in the developed countries, therefore, this research tried to assess it in the context of developing countries like Afghanistan.