Influences of Organizational Culture Characteristics on Job Attitudes of Organizational Members in Semiconductor Industry

Abstract

This study aimed to grasp the types of organizational culture in semiconductor industry, and to determine whether there are differences in job satisfaction and organizational commitment among the types. Many studies indicate that organizational performance, etc are affected by job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The present study intended to grasp the types of organizational culture recognized by semiconductor industry employees and to present a future vision. To this end, this study employed group culture, hierarchical culture, development culture, and rational culture, which were presented by Kimberly & Quinn (1984) as organizational culture types, as independent variables, and employed job satisfaction and organizational commitment as dependent vari*ables. The result was that semiconductor industry recognized organizational culture in order of rational culture, group culture, development culture and hierarchical culture, and showed a high level of affective commitment, but a low level of normative commitment. Job satisfaction was affected by group culture and rational culture, affective commitment was affected by group culture and rational culture, and normative commitment was affected by group culture.