Exploring the Effect of Organizational Culture on Job Satisfaction: Case of Namvaran Consulting Engineers, Managers Company

Abstract: Job satisfaction has long been one of the main areas of concern for human resource
managers of many companies specially the ones which their product is highly dependent
on their human resources rather than machines and equipment.
There are many influential factors on job satisfaction, one of the factors that has a great
effect on job satisfaction is the organizational culture of the company. The purpose of this
thesis is to take a deeper look into the effects of organizational culture and its different
dimensions on job satisfaction of employees. To achieve this, two research questions are
proposed:
RQ1: What is the effect of different traits of organizational culture on overall job
satisfaction of employees?
RQ2: How different dimensions of organizational culture can improve the employees’ job
satisfaction?
To answer these questions in a consultant engineering company, single embedded case
study has been chosen as the research strategy. The approach that is selected is an
exploratory qualitative approach. The data analysis approach is selected to be inductive.
The data which was gathered through few one on one interviews with managers who
could not be gathered in focus groups and some focus groups, shows that different traits
and indices of organizational culture have a wide range of effects on job satisfaction and
can play an important role in increasing the level of employees’ job satisfaction.
It is also observed that some traits have more significant effects comparing to others,
which are highlighted in research results.