The Effects of Employees' Demographic Characteristics on the Perception of Organizational Culture: A Study in Service Enterprise

The Effects of Employees' Demographic Characteristics on the Perception of Organizational Culture: A Study in Service Enterprise

SAYLI, Halil
BAYTOK, Ahmet
SOYBALI, Hasan Hüseyin

This study aims to evaluate the service sector employees‘ perception of organizational culture from the demographic characteristics perspective. The research was conducted in a Ministry of Culture and Tourism Licensed five-star thermal hotel in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. In scope of this study, a questionnaire was developed and applied to thermal hotel employees. The data collected through the questionnaire survey was analysed by using SPSS 18.0 statistics package software and the relationship between factors which creates the organizational culture and demographic characteristics of employees such as age, gender, education level and duration of experience both in the sector and in the hotel was examined. From the hypothesis developed it was observed that while differences exist between organizational culture perception and gender, age and education level, there are no differences between organizational culture perception and duration of experience both in the sector and in the hotel.

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2010-06

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