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2023 Faculty of Education IDOSR JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Organizational structure and Academic staff Performances in Private Universities in Uganda.

1Silaji Turyamureeba, 2Tukur Muhammad, 2Abdul Rahim and 1Kiyundo Zikanga

The decision to organize and restructure institutions have become crucial due to dynamicsof the Academic environment in private Universities. Organizational structure is the mostimportant structural choice a leader must make as it establishes the formal categorization,coordination, and division of work duties in an organization, The authors assert that theorganizational structure and level of employees dedication among academic staff membersare very crucial. The decision to organize and restructure institutions has become crucialdue to the dynamics of the academic environment in private universities. Organizationalstructure is the most important structural choice a leader must make as it establishes theformal categorization, coordination, and division of work duties in an organization. Theauthors assert that the organizational structure and level of employee’s dedication amongacademic staff members are very crucial. The study is aimed at reviewing literature onorganizational structure and academic staff performance in private universities in WesternUganda. In order to achieve this, the researcher used ProQuest significantly with theappearance of web-based providers which includes: Science Direct; Web of Science; Em-erald;Google Scholar; Scopus ,Springer; Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC), Tylor andFrancis. All the databases were scanned to retrieve the published articles in social science,management education with regard to Organizational structure and academic staffperformance in private universities in Uganda. I used a computer laptop and internet gadgetsand downloaded 100 articles and some journals related to the research topic under review.Review findings indicate that organizational boundaries and hierarchical layers have asubstantial impact on academic staff performance and promote dedication among academicstaff members in universities. It was also found that organizational structure and servicedelivery are positively correlated. On the basis of the literature reviewed, empirical evidenceshows that organizational structure has a significant impact on academic staff performancein private universities in Uganda