The Importance of Revitalizing the Organizational Structure

The Importance of Revitalizing the Organizational Structure

Prepared by:

    Hadeel M Qari

    Amal Aldose

  Kholood K Mansouri

Candidate master of

Health Services Administrator

Faculty of Economics and Administration

King Abdulaziz University

Saudi Arabia, Jeddah

January, 2010

“the first step is not designing the organization structure; that is the last step. The first step is to identify and organize the building blocks of organization, that is, the activities which have to be encompassed in the final structure and which, in turn, carry the structural load of the final edifice.”

Peter F. Drucker (1974)

Introduction

    The organizational chart -that represent the organization structure -. Is a diagram clarifies the lines of authority and the scope of service in term of accountability, and it often identifies gaps in the structure that may compromise effective care delivery.

  A chart also displays how the diverse elements function together as a coordinated system. So for hospitals this structure should be "inverted," to emphasize the importance of patients, frontline staff, and the organization's core business or activities provided inside the organization. the way in which the organizations work. It is a powerful tool that managers can use in order to improve how organizations operate.

    Experience suggests organizations may have difficulty translating such broad goals into concrete tasks. The health system must determine how to deploy and manage patient-focused interdisciplinary care teams, how to provide them with relevant and timely information, and how to connect them to the resources and priorities of the parent organization. The challenge lies not only in identifying how these tasks are to be accomplished but also in who will fulfill them. An organizational chart can provide these answers. Structure provides the trestles over which disparate organizational entities cross the chasm.

  We analyze...