Predicting Organizational Performance from Cultural Values

One’s culture affects not only his personal and social behaviours but also his attitude, behaviour, and performance in business life. Based on this idea, this study was designed to determine whether the cultural value orientations of teachers are related to their performance in business life. In the study, in which the quantitative research method was used, the individual cultural values scale and teachers' organizational performance scale were used as data collection tools. The research data were obtained from 291 people collected in the province of Siirt. According to the results, teachers' organizational performance differs significantly in all dimensions of the scale of individual cultural values, except for power distance. Accordingly, teachers with high uncertainty avoidance levels had significantly higher organizational performances compared to teachers with low uncertainty avoidance levels; individualist teachers had significantly higher organizational performances compared to collectivist teachers; teachers with long-term orientations had significantly higher organizational performances compared to teachers with short-term orientations, and teachers with masculine cultural values had significantly higher compared to teachers with feminine cultural values. As a result, performance is affected in a positive way if an individual's value orientations and national values are similar and overlapping.