Design an organizational structure for your chosen business using the table below.

Business
1 Memorial Hospital

2 Structure (Simple, Bureaucracy, etc.)
Medical organizations functions best under a Bureaucracy.

3 Number of Employees
560 Dr’s. Nurses, support techs, Imaging staff and Trades Persons to support the facilities.

4 Work Specialization
Each department specializes in specific organizational goals. A Cardiologist does not perform exams for the OB/GYN department. Organized by medical specialty, support staff also specializes by the same. Skilled Trades specialize by Electrician, Carpentry, Plumbing and HVAC. No cross over or dual role practices are permitted.

5 Departmentalization
All Imaging- X-Ray, MRI, CT Scan personal are grouped together as a single department. Plumbers, Electricians, HVAC and Carpenters are the department designated as Facilities Services. Each department will be formed by specialty as listed above.

6 Chain of Command
Set up to be an unbroken line of authority, each department will consist of a Senior Technician that all skilled personal will report to. Each Sr. Tech. will report to the department supervisor. Each supervisor will be assigned to a specific group Superintendent and each superintendent will report to a Director who in turn will report to an Exec. VP who answers to the CEO.

7 Span of Control
The span of control for each supervisor will consist of 4 divisions of staff containing no more than 7 employees each with 4 reporting Sr. Techs, one for each division. No more than 4 supervisors will report to any given superintendent. This means that each superintendent has responsibility for no more than 35 employees including management staff. Each Exec. VP will have no more than 4 superintendents reporting to him which makes each VP responsible for 140 total employees. The CEO has 4 Exec. VP’s in the organization which makes the CEO responsible for 560 employees.

8 Centralization and Decentralization
This organization is one that is considered as decentralized. Lower level supervisors are in charge of day-to-day decision making, control of the departmental budget for materials and labor, decide which projects take president over others as well as deciding what the best use of manpower would be.

9 Formalization
Work in each division is highly standardized creating defined workloads and scopes. Standardization is a requirement in this kind of environment due to risk factors, insurance policy requirements and patient safety.

10 Summary
99% of the staff understands their specific job scopes, agrees with its implementation and understands why the lines of departmentalization are in place. Overall, staff cultivates positive attitude projections based on the “known professional standards” that have been employed in the organization.

These are the criteria that need to be used:

Is the organizational structure appropriate for the business selected? Explain.

Do other structural elements, such as work specialization and span of control, seem appropriate for the business selected? Why or why not?

Does your classmate’s business use a mechanistic or organic model?

Would you like to work at your classmate’s company? Why or why not?