After knowing the hospital as a system, let us know how the hospital functions as an organization.
Organizing is the process of grouping the various activities into workable units and connecting them through authority, control, and coordination to perform identified jobs for achieving organizational objectives.
Every organization has a structure called ‘Organogram’ and the structure varies according to function.
Each organization has a distinct structure, objective, and function, therefore differs from each other.
Organization structure forms the basic skeleton of the organization, which:-
Helps to identify consistencies and complexities in the organization structure.
Helps to identify the major line of decision-making authority.
It indicates the employees there position, status, and role in the organization.
Each organization, therefore, has its peculiarity to ensure its effectiveness.
Similarly, the hospital is a social organization and a rational combination of the activities of several persons with different levels of knowledge and skills for achieving a common goal of patient care through a hierarchy of authority and responsibility.
Hospital organization is very peculiar and differs from other organizations. Hence called a ‘MATRIX’ organization.
To know what are the peculiarities of the hospital, how it functions as an organization, how it differs from other organizations, let us go to the simple PowerPoint presentation.
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