This study aims to see hoW organizational culture affects job satisfactíon at
the Pekanbaru Police Satreskrim. In addition, this study will also look at the
interaction of the two variables, how organizational politics mediates the
influence of organizational culture on job satisfaction. This type of research
is explanatory research. The population is members of the Pekanbaru City
Police, totaling 95 people. Data analysis in this study used SEM-PLS. Based
on the data processing, it was found that there are habits that have become
a culture in the Pekanbaru City Police which will determine the good or bad
perceptions of its personnel on political behavior in the organization. In
addition, the understanding of the political behavior of its personnel is
infuenced by the culture adopted by the Pekanbaru Police. The limitation of
this study is the lack of population size used. So it is suggested to further
researchers to examine the organizational culture of Hofstede (1984) per
indicator, So that it can explain in more detail the influence of each cultural
indicator on organizational politics and job satisfaction.