Individual: Organizational Model Effectiveness

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital is a virtual healthcare organization that provides hospital services for a community. The organization consists of your usual staff such as doctors, nurses, CNAs, and your support and ancillary personnel. The current organizational structure in place constitutes of variety of directors, executive officers, and the like. For being a community hospital, there are a lot more supervisory and executive roles than there needs to be for a small hospital. A community hospital is defined as a small business entity that provides general practice services to the surrounding community that has a small population (Primrose, 1998). After carefully reviewing, the organizational structure could be trimmed down in a variety of ways depending on what the focus is of the community needs are. For example, say that this community hospital is located in a retirement community; the organizational structure would have to be composed of a large amount of nursing, respite, and hospice care due to the age of the population. However, if the community hospital were to be located in a college town where the age group is more or less in the young adult range, then the organizational model would need to follow nursing, pediatric care, and more of a general practice approach. Furthermore, the organizational model is directly reflective as to what the population the community is serving. In stating that, it is to be noted that the current organizational structure, at one time, resembles that of a simplified structure, which does effectively govern the hospital. It seems as if as time went on and the hospital grew, the organizational structure also grew with added management slots to the simplified structure. The model that I would choose that would most benefit Patton-Fuller Community Hospital is a matrix organizational structure because given the nature of the hospital and its format, the matrix organizational structure would be more appropriate. Since hospitals are generally specialized departments that operate independently within the same building, provide a service to the community, and are not entirely bureaucratic in nature, the matrix structure, again, would be more befitting. The matrix organizational structure would also allow for the communication between the various departments to be more fluid like rather than be impeded with the “red-tape” of bureaucracy. It also allows for the departments to focus on their specialization rather than be efficient at a variety of tasks (Guzman, 2012). Kelsey Elementary School is a school that is located in the city of Kelsey. It is a public school that teaches grades kindergarten through fifth grade. There are three teachers per each grade except for kindergarten and second grade. In addition to the kindergarten and second grade classes, there are also three teacher’s aides to allow for more one-on-one time with each student. Kelsey Elementary School also boasts a newly remodeled computer room, a choir room, and media center. The school also encourages extracurricular activities such as orchestra, chorus, chess club, and student council. If the students desire to express their skills, there are also sponsored activities such as spelling bees, academic competitions, science fairs, and musical presentations. After reviewing the organizational structure of the schools, which consists of the Kelsey Elementary School, the Kelsey Middle School, the Kelsey High School, and the administrative offices, it is noted that the current organizational structure follows a bureaucratic structure. The individual who heads the school structure is going to be the superintendent with his or her support staff and then the structure continues on downward. Per each school, there is a principal, the assistant principal, the teachers, and support staff. The model is effective because the entire structure serves one purpose, providing an education for its students. Any policies or rules and regulation dictated by superintendent or any other supervisory staff would follow the chain-of-command.

References
Guzman, O. (2012) The Advantages of Matrix Organizational Structure. [online] Available at: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-matrix-organizational-structure-286.html [Accessed: February 5, 2012].
Primrose, W. (1998) Age and Ageing. [online] Available at: http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/3/261.full.pdf [Accessed: February 5, 2012].