African Journal of Agricultural Marketing

Full Length Research Paper

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

Azizi Yahaya¹*, Noordin Yahaya², Jasmi Ismail ², Zainudin Shariff², Jamaludin Ramli¹, Muhammad Sukri Saud¹, Mohamed Afiq² and Mohamed Anwar²

¹Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

²Universiti Teknologi Mara (Melaka), Malaysia.

*Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].

Accepted 17 August, 2013

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.