Realizing that work culture is one of the key elements of human resource management, the researcher considers that there are two important aspects to be analyzed: first, analyzing the civil service’s work culture aimed to make a correction of the officials’ work manner based on the work culture’s values to improve the ability and the commitment of the officials as their main job and function; and second, analyzing which variables influencing it so that it will be known which ones are needed to be evaluated in order to improve the ability and the commitment of the officials.
The research was an analytic design cross sectional study in which the population of the research was all of the government officials of the secretariat civil service office with 156 officials participate in. The consideration of the big amount of the sample was based on formula which takes 102 officials as the sample. The collection of the data is done by using questionnaire. The measurement of the variable is based on Likert scale with the score shift of 0-4.
The result of is research proved that the influence of work culture’s free variable which consisted of the culture of honesty, diligence, creativity, discipline, and science technology toward the ability of the officials was 0,171 or 17,1% and the grade of F count = 3,973 with the significance degree of 0,003 (p < 0,05). It means that work culture have a significant influence toward the ability. On the other side the result of the research also proved that the influence of work culture’s free variable toward the commitment is only 0,044 or 4,4% and the grade of F count = 0,893 with the significance degree of 0,489 (p > 0,05). It means that work culture haven’t a significant influence toward the commitment.