The Effect Of Organizational Culture And Islamic Work Ethic On Permanent Lecturers’ Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment And Work Performance

The present study seeks to provide an empirical elaboration on the effects of organizational culture and Islamic work ethic on permanent lecturers’ job satisfaction, organizational commitment and work performance (a survey at private Islamic Universities in the City of Medan). The population in the present study are all permanent lecturers at Private Universities under Yayasan Islam (an Islamic Organization) totalling 485 lecturers with respective functional titles of Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor. Slovin’s formula was adopted in order to determine the number of samples and it generated a total of 219 people. The findings of the study indicated that organizational culture and Islamic work ethic directly impacts on permanent lecturers’ job satisfaction, organizational commitment among lecturers and their performance, job satisfaction has an effect on organizational commitment among lecturers , job satisfaction has an effect on lecturers’ performance, organizational commitment among lecturers has an effect on lecturers’ performance, organizational commitment among lecturers together with Islamic work ethic have effects on organizational commitment among lecturers through lecturers’ job satisfaction , organizational commitment among lecturers and Islamic work ethic have positive and significant effects on lecturers’ performance through lecturer’s job satisfaction, organizational culture and Islamic work ethic have positive and significant effects on lecturerss performance through organizational commitment among lecturers and job satisfaction has a positive and significant effect on lecturers’ performance through organizational commitment among lecturers.