Examining the Link between Organizational Structure and Organizational Performance: A Serial Mediation Analysis

Abstract

The particular aim of this research was to examine the organizational structure as an antecedent of firms’ performance relative to other competitors. In doing so, human resource related factors that may connect the performance and well-being output to organizational structure are also studied as mediators through survey research strategy. This study followed the quantitative survey based research strategy with multi-stage sampling technique. 344 Middle level managers serving currently in different export processing zones’ firms of Pakistan constituted the sample of the study survey from these managers in three time lags. For this explanatory research, the current study assessed the serial mediation regression analysis was done by Hayes (2017) process model. Based on survey of employees working in the firms at export processing zones firms, this research confirms that the firms that have organic organizational structure along with better high performance human resource practices would yield more well-being for employees and better organizational performance in Pakistani context. In addition, the current study represents various future recommendations.

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