Organisation Design and Performance in the Nigerian Construction Industry

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between organisation design and organisational performance in Julius Berger Nigeria Plc. Based on the Kates and Galbriath ―Star Model‖ of organisation design, the study chose five elements of strategy, structure, process, rewards and people for examination. Data were collected from 181 respondents using an adaptive questionnaire from an earlier study. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data, while Pearson Product Moment Coefficient analysis was used to test the hypotheses formulated for the study.The results of analysis give correlation coefficients (r) of 0.623, 0.559, 0.528, 0.601, and 0.614 respectively for strategy, structure, process, rewards and people. These results imply that all the five elements of organization design under study have strong positive relationship with organisational performance. Based on the results, we concluded that there was a strong positive relationship between organization design and organisational performance. Consequently, we recommended that management of the studied organisation should consider all five elements when designing or re-designing their organisation rather than select some out of the five.