Impact of Organisational Structure on Organisational Behaviour
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2016-12
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Department of Business Administration, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State, Nigeria
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The business environment changes continuously and these changes bring about high levels of uncertainties that the organization would have to make structural adjustment, so as to be able to accommodate these changes since the structural variable could influence changes on the organizational effectiveness. This study therefore examined the impact of organizational structure on organizational behavior using Dangote Nigeria PLC Lagos as a case with the objectives of analysing the effect of the business environment on employee behaviour; to examine the relationship between organisations' size and employee behaviour; and to investigate the extent to which technology affects employee behaviour in organisation settings. This study used descriptive survey method while employing the use of questionnaire to obtain the required data from the respondents. A total of 786 respondents were identified in the population, while the sample size of 130 was calculated using the Yaro Yemane formula and were administered with questionnaire. The findings of this study shows that business environment has a positive effect on employee behaviour with a significance level 0.03 which is less than 0.05 and R2 value of 0.222,also that there is exist a positive relationship between organasitional behaviou and organazation size with a significance level of 0.04 which is also less than 0.05 and finally the study find out that technology does have an effect on employee behavior with a significance level of 0.06 and R2 value of 0.222. The research concluded that the structure of an organization has a deep impact on the behaviour of employees as it build loyalty at employee level and encourages employees to work harder to advance within the company.it therefore recommends that organization needs to establish a framework of order and system of commending employees effort when work undertaken by them is accomplished successfully.
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organisational structure, organisation behaviour, business enivronment, organisation size, employee behaviour