Organizational culture, occupational stress and counterproductive workplace behavior among employees of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between organizational culture, occupational stress and counterproductive workplace behavior. The objective of the study was; to assess the relationship between organizational culture and occupational stress, to assess the relationship between organizational culture and counterproductive workplace behavior and to assess the relationship between occupational stress and counterproductive workplace behavior. The study adopted a correlational survey as its research design where quantitative method was used to gather information for proper analysis and making appropriate inferences, generalizations and conclusions to the population where a sample size of 80 both male and female was used. The research study employed a simple random sampling technique to select the respondents. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents and the analysis was done using SPSS version 21. Pearson correlation was used to examine the relationship between the study variables and it was found that organizational culture and occupational stress are significantly related (p< 0.000, r= 0.808**), organizational culture and counterproductive workplace behavior are not significantly related (p= 0.084, r= -0.194) and occupational stress and counterproductive workplace behavior are not significantly related (p= 0.641, r= -0.053). In conclusion the study found that organizational culture plays a pivotal role in determining employee’s level of occupational stress. The researcher recommended Organizations should carry out research on their company culture to determine which part of the organizational is toxic or not. Once identified organizations should reduce on the toxic organizational culture as it is the one that mostly leads to stress.