Organizational Structure and Employee's Performance: A Study of Brewing Firms in Nigeria

Abstract

This study sought to assess the effect of organizational structure on employee's performance in brewing firms in Nigeria. The purpose of the study is to determine whether there is appropriate structure in Nigeria brewing firms and the extent it has contributed to their employees' performances. The population of the study is 6468 being the total staff strength of the five brewing firms in Nigeria Stock Exchange while the sample size was extracted from the population using Taro Yamane method. This study used descriptive type of survey design and structured questionnaire was used to generate data. Descriptive statistics, correlation and t-statistics, was adopted for analysis of data and hypotheses testing. The result of the study revealed that nature of hierarchical layers has significant positive effect on the employee's performance of brewing firms; that technology has significant positive effect on the employee's performance of brewing firms; that internal and external boundaries has significant positive effect on the employee's performance of brewing firms; and that formalization significantly affect employee's performance positively. In view of the above findings, the study concludes that adopting appropriate structure is the fulcrum on which employees' performance of brewing firms revolves.  The study therefore recommends among others that Nigeria firms should give more serious attention in designing an appropriate structure that must match all units and component parts of organization to facilitate employee's performance.