Organizational Structure: Decision Making

Organizational Structure: Decision Making

Health care authorities, in order to function effectively, must set priorities to feasibly manage resource constraints. Decision makers have to resort to past experiences and practical perspectives to organize resources. Often, especially in competitive environments, management of resources is departmentalized as separate organizational units operating in the facility compete for resources that prove to be scarce more often than not. Individual departments like to pursue arrangements that benefit their own department, but not necessarily the health care organization as a whole. So a committee, of managers, executives and the board of directors, has this decision ...