The Influence of Organisation Structure to Performance

“THE SWAY OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE ON PERFORMANCE IN THE GHANA CIVIL SERVICE”

ABSTRACT

This study examines organizational structures of the Civil Service, It impact on organization performance and to offer a possible alternative to the Ghana Civil Service existing organization structure. Hierarchy and its associations with status, feudalism, and power often leads to relentless rigidity. The structure and the array of job positions that took the foci away from working with the process efficiencies, individual role effectiveness, and throughput orientation within the system. Members of the organization a conclusion was drawn that mechanistic organization structure to some extent does not improve performance but both mechanistic and organic organization structure works in supplementary. They work together to attain organization goal.

TABLE OF CONTENT

ABSTRACT 1
TABLE OF CONTENT 2
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 3
1.1 Background of the paper 3
1.2 Statement of the Problem 5
1.3 Purpose of the study 6
1.4 Issues to interrogate 6
1.5 Organization of the Study 6
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 8
2.1 Theoretical Literature 8
2.1.1 Organizational Structures and its Impact on Organizational Performance 9
2.1.2 Mechanistic Structures and Its Impact on Performance 9
2.3 Operational Definition 19
CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY 21
3.1 Study Design 21
3.2 Sampling Method or Data Collection Method 21
3.3 Statistical Analysis (Test of Questions) 22
CHAPTER FOUR: RESULT ANDD DISCUSSIONS 23
4.1 Results 23
4.2 Discussion 26
CHAPTER FIVE: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 28
5.1 Conclusion 28
5.3 Recommendations 29
5.4 Limitations of the study 29
5.5 Further Studies 30
REFERENCES 31
APPENDICES 35

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the paper

Public expectations and priorities are changing. Successfully achieving change in public sector bodies, as in any

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