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Effects of Organizational Structure Centralization on Employee Performance in Narok County Government

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dc.contributor.author Angela Lankas , Dr. Daniel Naikuni , Mr. Jackson Kulet
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-15T08:41:01Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-15T08:41:01Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.issn 2454-6186
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13848
dc.description.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 en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.title Effects of Organizational Structure Centralization on Employee Performance in Narok County Government en_US
dc.type Learning Object en_US


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