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 Volume 11, Issue 6 (June 2024), Pages: 44-52

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 Original Research Paper

Exploring the impact of organizational behavior on employee performance in Saudi universities

 Author(s): 

 Rajeh Bati Almasradi, Nabil Mohamed Alabsy, Said Khalfa Brika *

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Business Administration, College of Business, University of Bisha, Bisha, Bisha 61922, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8918-578X

 Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2024.06.005

 Abstract

This study examines how organizational behavior affects employee performance. We gathered quantitative data using a questionnaire from 88 employees working at Saudi universities. The study focused on four main aspects of organizational behavior: direction, motivation, bias, administrative leadership, and organizational culture. Employee performance, measured by efficiency, served as the dependent variable in this study. Results showing P-values below 0.01 indicate significant positive impacts of motivation, bias, and organizational culture on employee performance. In contrast, direction and administrative leadership showed minimal influence on performance. This research addresses a gap in empirical studies on organizational behavior in the workplace and provides valuable evidence of how organizational behavior links to employee performance. We used simple regression analysis to demonstrate this relationship, offering a significant methodological contribution to understanding these dynamics. The findings underscore the importance of promoting a motivational and inclusive organizational culture to improve employee performance, specifically within Saudi universities.

 © 2024 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords

 Organizational behavior, Employee performance, Motivational culture, Saudi universities, Regression analysis

 Article history

 Received 16 January 2024, Received in revised form 22 May 2024, Accepted 24 May 2024

 Acknowledgment 

The authors are thankful to the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at the University of Bisha for supporting this work through the Fast-Track Research Support Program.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Ethical considerations

This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Bisha. All participants provided informed consent, and their confidentiality and anonymity were maintained. The data were used solely for research purposes.

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Almasradi RB, Alabsy NM, and Brika SK (2024). Exploring the impact of organizational behavior on employee performance in Saudi universities. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 11(6): 44-52

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