African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4199

Full Length Research Paper

The factors influencing organizational culture in Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA)

Azizi Yahaya1*, Noordin Yahaya2, Jasmi Ismail2, Zainudin Shariff2, Jamaludin Ramli1, Muhammad Sukri Saud1 and Mohamed Afiq2 Mohamed Anwar2
  1Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. 2Universiti Teknologi Mara (Melaka), Malaysia.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 17 February 2011
  •  Published: 18 May 2011

Abstract

 

The article reviews the empirical studies which emphasize that the factors influencing organizational culture in Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA), which are very few, have been done in Malaysia. The factors studied are job satisfaction, job content, and distributive justice, which are studied towards the dependent variables (that is, organizational culture). In obtaining the employee opinion towards this issue, a researcher has distributed 120 questionnaires to the respondents and only 100 questionnaires were returned. A researcher has used the statistical packages for social sciences (SPSS) version 14 to analyze the entire data. The data were analyzed by using Reliability test, Descriptive analysis and Pearson’s correlation analysis. The result shows that distributive justice (Beta=0.504) and followed by job satisfaction (Beta=0.284) which influences organizational culture in FAMA. 

 

Key words: Satisfaction, job content, organizational culture, distributive justice.