Organizational culture and job satisfaction: The moderating effect of personality

In this study the moderating effect of personality on the relation between organizational culture and job satisfaction was examined. About 168 enterprise employees who were from different kinds of organizations in two provinces of China were surveyed. Hierarchical regression was conducted to test the significance of interaction between organizational culture and job satisfaction. Two dimensions of organizational culture (team orientation, stability) and two dimension of personality (extraversion, relationship-orientation) were selected into the questionnaire. Data shows that: extraversion can moderate the effect of team orientation on job satisfaction. Relationship-orientation can moderate the effect of stability on job satisfaction. It was suggested that when designing institution and culture, managers should take employees' individual differences into consideration.EI02251-2564