Investigating the effect of cultural organizational culture on job performance through the variables of job satisfaction and knowledge sharing

Subject Areas : Human Capital Empowerment

Abbas Ghaedamini Harouni ¹ , Mehrdad Sadeghi de cheshmeh ² , Ghulam Reza Maleki Farsani ³ , Majed i Maharani Barzan ⁴

1 - Ph.D. Student, Cultural Managementof Facuty Management. South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran ,Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Facuty Management Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - PhD in Cultural Management, faculty member of Comprehensive University of Applied Sciences (Herand Center for Applied Scientific Education)
4 - Ph.D. Student, Cultural Management of Facuty Management. Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2022-03-01 Accepted : 2022-11-07 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: Job satisfaction, Organizational Culture, Knowledge Sharing, job performance,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of organizational culture on job performance through job satisfaction and knowledge sharing. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of how to collect descriptive correlational information. The statistical population of the present study consisted of all employees working in Toka Foolad Company in the number of 5340 people, of which 787 people were selected as a sample through Cochran's sampling formula through stratified sampling method appropriate to the volume.And data analysis was performed at the inferential level, including structural equation modeling. The results showed that the relationship between power distance and knowledge sharing with an impact factor of -0.77, the relationship between power distance and job satisfaction with an impact factor of -0.55, the relationship between ambiguity avoidance and knowledge sharing with an impact factor of 0.25, the relationship between avoidance Job satisfaction with an impact factor of 0.35 and the relationship between collectivism and job satisfaction with an impact factor of 0.45 and masculinity with job satisfaction with an impact factor of 0.22 and long-term job satisfaction with an impact factor of 0.33 and job satisfaction with knowledge sharing with a coefficient Impact of 0.88 and job satisfaction with job performance with an impact factor of 0.75 and knowledge sharing with job performance with an impact factor of 0.55 were significant.

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