Abstract:
The primary goal of missionaries at the time of coming
to Africa was to spread the gospel and establish churches for those
who were converting to Christianity. For Africa Inland Church
(A.I.C), the first missionaries initially established mission stations
in Machakos with other stations being opened soon after in Central
Kenya and Rift Valley respectively. The rapid growth of the
number of people who were converting to Christianity and the
many churches that were being opened required leaders to run
them. This made missionaries to start Ukamba Bible School as the
first A.I.C theological training institution in Machakos with
Moffat Bible School being opened soon after in Kijabe. However,
despite the repaid growth of the theological training institutions,
very little research studies had been carried out to determine the
factors affecting their performance. The aim of this study was
therefore to establish the effects of organizational culture on the
performance of A.I.C theological training institutions in Kenya.
The study employed a descriptive survey research design with
closed and open ended questionnaires being used to collect data
from 120 Management members, employees and third year
students. The results indicated that organizational culture had a
positive correlation with performance at 0.517 with 26.7 percent
of organizational performance in A.I.C theological training
institutions being explained by organizational culture with the
remaining 73.3 percent being explained by other variables. The
significance of the model between organizational culture and
organizational performance was statistically significant with an Fvalue of 33.475. Both p-value and β value were 0.517 indicating
that organizational culture has both significance and effect on
organizational performance.