The Effect of organizational structure on employee performance"

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of organizational structure on employee performance a case of Dill Chora referral Hospital. This study was employed a both descriptive and explanatory research design to examine the organizational structure. This study used a mixed research approach and the study used a self-administered questionnaire instrument that was distributed to employees of Dill Chora hospital to meet the main objectives. The study was used simple random and stratified sampling method. From the total population of 191 employees of Dill Chora the study was selected 186 respondents who currently working in Dill Chora Hospital. Using SPSS software version 25 for data analysis, descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation were used and inferential statistics to analyze the relationship between dependent and independent variables. In this study components of organizational structure (formalization, specialization, centralization, and layer of hierarchy) treated as independent variables and employee performance was treated as dependent variable. The study findings show that formalization and centralization have positive effect on employees’ performance. Specialization and layer of hierarchy has positive and significant effect on employees’ performance. The hospital recommended enabling professionals dedicated to specialized tasks that enhance staff performance and provide employee training on specialized tasks to improve performance. In terms of formalization it is recommended that management of the hospital adjust the way things are formalized by reducing the way work are standardized in the organization so as to increase the performance of the employees. In terms of layer of hierarchy the hospital rechecks its number of layer of hierarchy to improve employees’ performance. The study recommends that management of the hospital use decentralization as a dimension of organizational structure to restructure their organization since centralization has a weak positive effect on employee performance