Methodology of Organization Structure on Employee Behavior

            Methodology section in the research paper provides a comprehensive overview of the methods and ways used in the research to explore the relationship between the organizational structure and employee's behavior. Methodology contains information about the research design, sampling, data collection, data analysis and interpretation of the data analysis.

Research design of Organization Structure on Employee Behavior

        The research will use explanatory and descriptive research design to understand the effects of organizational structure on the behavior of the employees working in the Saudi Electricity company. The research will use the primary investigation technique to collect research results rather than just concluding on the basis of secondary research material.

Sampling of Organization Structure on Employee Behavior

        Research population is 37,769 includes all the employee (including the workers/ non-managerial employee and the managerial employees) working in the Saudi Electricity company. Access to the whole population was not possible because of limitation of time and resources, therefore, samples are selected from the population as the representative of the population through random sampling technique. The total number of samples selected for the research are 300 from which 50 are from managerial staff and remaining 250 from the working class.

Data collection of Organization Structure on Employee Behavior

        Data collection is based on the quantitative research technique. Questionnaire and interviews are used for collation of responses from selected samples of the research. The questionnaire based on formally structured questions will help out the research in collecting the actual responses and capturing the actual situation in the company.

Data analysis and Interpretation of Organization Structure on Employee Behavior

        Responses collected through questionnaire is analyzed through the use of statistics software SPSS and micro-soft excel. In the research collected research are analyzed and interpreted according to the rules of fair research data interpretation. Interpretation and analysis of the data are free from personal biases and personal interests or benefits.

Results of Organization Structure on Employee Behavior

        Results collected from the research are just according to the assumption extracted from the literature review. According to the results of the research and literature review organizational structure has a significant impact on the behavior of the employees working in the Saudi Electricity Company. In accordance with the research, the Saudi Electricity Company has a modern organizational structure in which employees are given right for decision making.

        Decentralized and flexible organizational structure is promoting positive behavior in the employees and managerial staff. The organizational structure is causing to promote motivation, loyalty and organizational commitment in the employees that make their behavior positive for the organization. Employee's behavior in the organization is providing the basis to the organization to win the market and increase profitability in the targeted market.

        Fair treatment with the employees and given opportunity for innovation was causing to support the employee’s satisfaction towards the job. However, results also indicate that decentralized and modern organizational structure provide empowerment to the employees that have the significant relationship with satisfied behavior towards the job.

        However, research also found that positive relationship as coordination and collaboration in the flexible organizational structure is a major reason for the satisfied and positive behavior of the employees. thus, in a nutshell, positive work environment, co-worker relationship, and employees empowerment as a result of the right adoption of the organizational structure by the Saudi Electricity company is causing to make the employee's behavior positive and supportive for the organization to earn success in the market.

        The flexible organizational structure is not providing 100% benefit and positive behavior to the company. In fact, freedom and delegation of authority, and responsibility is causing some employees to show low-performance outcomes in the company. While the in majority cases modern structure of organizational workforce is an actor and motive for improvement in the performance and behavior.

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