IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE ON ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
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2016-12
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Department Of Business Administration, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State.
Abstract
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 behaviour using Dangote Nigeria PLC Lagos as a case study with the objective of analysing the effect of the business environment on employee behaviour; to examine the relationship between organizations' size and employee behaviour; and to investigate the extent to which technology affects employee behaviour in organizational 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 for using the Yaro Yamane formula and were administered with the questionnaire. The findings of this study shows that business environment has a positive effect on employee behaviour with a significance level of 0.03 which is less than 0.05 and R? value of 0.223, also that there exist a positive relationship between organizational behaviour and organizational size with a significance level of 0.04 which is also less than 0.05 and finally the study finds out that technology does have an effect on employee behaviour with a significance level of 0.06 and R? value of 0.222. The research concluded that the structure of an organization has a deep impact on the behaviours of employees as it build loyalty at employee level and encourage 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 environment, Organisation size, Employee behaviour
Citation
10. Olota, O.O., Abdul, F.A & Oladipo, G.T. (2016): Impact of organizational structure on Organizational Behaviour. Lapai Journal of Management Science.7(1): 126-142, Published by Department Of Business Administration, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State.