International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM) ||Volume||06||Issue||01||Pages||EL-2018-57-65||2018|| Website: www.ijsrm.in ISSN (e): 2321-3418 Index Copernicus value (2015): 57.47, (2016):93.67, DOI: 10.18535/ijsrm/v6i1.el09 Fauziah Nami Nasution, IJSRM Volume 06 Issue 01 January 2018 [www.ijsrm.in] Page 57 The Influence of Career Development and Organizational Culture on Employee Performance Fauziah Nami Nasution 1 , Emmy Mariatin 2 , Siti Zahreni 3 1 The Faculty of Psychology, University of Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia Abstract: The establishment of Bank Pembangunan Daerah is aimed to be the main contributor in the local people’s economic development. Therefore, it is very important to take heed of the company’s performance by evaluating its employees’ performance. Based on the result of interviews and obs ervation, it was found that employee performance was influenced by some factors such as career development and organizational culture. The objective of this research was to examine the influence of career development and organizational culture on employee performance. The research used quantitative approach which involved 242 permanent employees of Bank Pembangunan Daerah. The result of statistic analysis showed that career development and organizational culture had positive and significant influence on employee performance. The implication of this research is expected to be able to help the company’s management increase their employees’ performance by carrying out objective, transparent, and fair career development program and strengthen organizational culture by socializing and monitoring the implementation of firm values. Keywords: Career Development, Organizational Culture, Employee Performance Introduction Bank Pembangunan Daerah (BPD) is a government-owned company which is considered having significant potency to be the main contributor to the regional economic development. Therefore, its performance is very important to be heeded since its establishment is intended to encourage regional economic development, especially to support infrastructure development, UMKM (Micro, Small, and Medium Business), agriculture, and other economic activities (Kristanto, 2012). Besides that, according to OJK (Financing Service Authority, 2015), there are some BPD offices which do not have any satisfactory performance; it is seen from their low competitiveness due to lack of product and service compared with the other private and national banks. The decrease in company’s performance generally cannot be separated from its employees’ performance (Karami et al., 2004) in which human resources in an organization constitutes the key success of a company in achieving its goal. The achievement of a company’s goal will come to reality due to the efforts of the members of the organization since there is close relationship between individual performance and organizational performance (Sutrisno, 2010). In other words, if employee performance is good, the performance of the company or organization will also be good. On the other hand, bad performance of the members of an organization will cause the company to fail in running its business which will eventually have the impact on its incapability of achieving its goal. The result of the research done by Mishra and Sachan (2012) reveals that one of the factors which influences employee performance in a company is career development in the company. Career development will give a lot of advantages to the company because it can develop employee competence needed by the organization and increase their performance, bond, and retention. Dialoke and Nkechi (2017) in their research also point out that career development in a certain company will give positive effect such as the increase in employee performance because, through career development program provided by a company, it will give an opportunity to its employees to participate in