ABSTRACT

The study evaluated organizational structure and employees’ performance in Guinness Nigeria Pic and Nigeria Bottling Company, Pic, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. Five (5) specific objectives andfive (5) research questions were formulated to provide guidance to the study. The study employed descriptive research design to evaluate organizational structure and employees ’ performance in the breweryfirms. The population ofthe study is 6000 being the total staffstrength ofthe (2) brewery firms in Nigeria Stock Exchange from 2011-2018 while the sample size was 375 extractedfrom the population using Taro Yamane method. The instrument for the study was a structured questionnaire. Data obtained were analyzed using a descriptive type ofsurvey design such asfrequency counts, percentages, and mean scores in line with the specific objectives while ordinary least squares (OLS) simple regression analysis techniques were employed in testing the hypotheses ofthe study. The results ofthe study showed that work specialization on the quality ofservice in Guinness Nigeria Pic and Nigeria Bottling Company, Pic can never be overemphasize. The findings of the study suggest that work specialization has a significant andpositive effect on the quality ofservice and the main responses were all above the benchmark of 3.00. The research hypotheses testing done using Ordinary Least Square (OLS) simple regression analytical technique showed that departmentalization on training hours ofemployees, chain ofcommand on revenue per employee, centralization on profit per employee andformalization on employee turnover significantly (at p< 0.05) andpositively influenced employee performance at both Guinness Nigeria Pic and Nigeria Bottling Company, Pic. In view of the above findings, the study concludes that adopting appropriate structure is the fulcrum on which employee performance of brewery firms revolves. The study therefore recommend among others that Nigeria Brewery firms should give more serious attention in designing an appropriate structure that must match all departments, units and component parts of organization to facilitate employee performance at both GNPic andNBC Pic.