Abstract:
ABSTRACT
Man's abysmal failure to uphold culture and ethical behaviour within the
framework of employment relationship, necessitates continuous examination
of the complex issues, which arise from the lopsidedness between
organisational and employees' performance. The study was conducted to
assess the effect of organisational culture, work ethics on employee
performance among administrative staffs at the University of Cape Coast. The
study employed an explanatory research design backed by quantitative
research approach. Both inferential and descriptive statistics was used for the
analysis of the data. Two hundred and sixteen (216) employees were sampled
from the target population using the simple random technique. Structured
questionnaire was used for the primary data collection. The findings of the
study revealed that employee performance was perceived to be effective.
Again, the study showed that there was also statistically significant positive
correlation between organisational culture and employee performance even
though there was a positive weak correlation between organisational culture
and employee performance. Regarding the joint effect of organisational
culture and work ethics on employee performance, the study revealed that
organisational culture and work ethics is not a statistically significant positive
predictor of employee performance. It was thus recommended that
management of University of Cape Coast should institutionalize periodic
research in its management of organisational culture and work ethics policies
as to timely diagnose grey areas in its organisational culture and work ethics
system that could be well-managed scientifically to improve the impact of
performance of administrators
