Abstract:
Organizational structure describes the formal
arrangement of jobs and tasks in organizations. It describes the
allocation of authority and responsibility, and how rules and
regulation are executed by workers in firms. Locally, studies on
the relationship between organizational structure and
organizational performance remain inconclusive and
contradictory as evidenced from previous studies. This study used
Kenyan data and government institutions by investigating the
likely impact of organizational structure on performance of
County governments of Kenya taking a case of Narok County
government. The specific objectives of the study examine the effect
of organizational structural centralization on employee
performance. The study was anchored on Goal theory and equity
theory. This study adopted a descriptive research design. Both
primary and secondary data was used in this study. Primary data
was obtained by use of questionnaires while secondary data by use
of existing records. The population of the study was all staff
working in Narok County Government. The study targets a total
population of 5345 distributed in all departments and a sample
size of 372 respondents was obtained from it. The County
Executives, chief officers and directors will be randomly selected
from the county. Other employees were selected using stratified
random sampling thus the study draw 10% of each department
employees using strata method. The collected data was processed
and analyzed using SPSS Version 26.0 where linear regression was
used to establish the relationship between (structural complexity,
structural centralization, and structural formalization) and
employee performance. The study has a lot of significance to
Narok County Government as it will shed light on the importance
of utilizing and improving effective organizational structure in
order to enhance the performance of individual employees. The
findings of this study are likely to benefit researchers in their
efforts towards understanding the relationship between
organizational structure and the performance of employee which
is directly related to their organization productivity.
Key words: County governments, organizational performance,
Organizational structure, structural centralization
