Impact of Organizational Adaptability on Job Satisfaction the Case of Local Government Sector

Abstract

Adaptability is one of the most important factors, obtaining competitive advantage and sustainable performance for an organization. In Sri Lanka, public sector employees are pressed by the rules, regulations and legislations. Moreover, government organizations practice bureaucratic managerial style. Research findings have revealed that; the inefficiency has been rooted in Sri Lankan government organizations and, employee dissatisfaction is one of the main reasons for the ineffective and inefficient service in Sri Lankan state sector. Therefore, the focus of this study was to identify the impact of organizational adaptability on employee job satisfaction in state sector enterprises/ organizations in Sri Lanka. The conceptual model developed in the present study was based on Denison Organizational Cultural Survey (DOCS) which identifies three organizational cultural traits namely, creating change, customer focus and organizational learning as independent variables. The dependent variable, employee job satisfaction was based on Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire. Based on these literature, a structured questionnaire was developed and self-administered to a sample of 150, secondary level employees in local government sector in Matara district. Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results show that all the traits measuring adaptability, namely; creating change, customer focus and organizational learning were positively related with employee job satisfaction. Moreover, organizational learning is the most contributing organizational culture trait in the prediction of employee job satisfaction with the beta value of 379. The other two adaptability traits, in their descending order of standardized coefficients are customer focus and organizational learning. Based on the findings, it was concluded that gth International Conference on Management and Economics – ISBN 978-955-1507-72-5 337 adaptability is important in determining and improving the level of employee job satisfaction which is asserted by the positive contribution of creating change, customer focus and organizational learning towards employee job satisfaction