Impact of Organizational Structure on Culture: A Case Study of Road Living Scheme

HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT
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Executive summary
This report is based Road scheme was founded to help ex-services who are homeless or
suffering from various diseases. The report commences with a description of the structure of the
organization. It also provides an explanation of the organization culture visible at the
organization. The report also presents an overview of how the structure of the organization can
impact its culture .Finally it concludes with an overview of the changes that can be made to the
organization.

Contents
Executive summary............................................................................................................................................................2
Introduction..........................................................................................................................................................................4
Organization structure.......................................................................................................................................................4
Organization culture..........................................................................................................................................................6
Impact of structure on organization culture..................................................................................................................8
Changes that can be made to improve this provision.................................................................................................8
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................................................9
References..........................................................................................................................................................................11

Introduction
Different organizations adopt different organization Structure. The choice of an
organization structure depends on the size and complexity of an organization, geographical
considerations, and attitudes of top management or personnel geographical considerations among
other factors. An organization structure is a system which defines the organization’s hierarchy. It
defines the alignment of organizational activities such as supervision; coordination and
allocation are aligned towards the realization of organization goals (Ginter, Duncan and Swayne,
2018). There are four organizational cultures namely divisional, functional, matrix and flatachry
whose difference is based on the alignment of the identified organization goals. The structure
adopted by an organization in some cases determines its organizational culture by acting as the
framework for the implementation of organization culture (Lunenburg, 2012). An organizational
culture may also determine the structure of an organization. This report seeks to find out the
organizational structure of Road Living scheme, its culture, the impact of Culture on the
organization's structure and possible changes to the organization.
Organization structure
Organizational cultures exist in multiple forms with the basic ones being flatachry, matrix
structure, divisional structure and functional structure. Each of these structures presents the
organization using it with both advantages and disadvantages (O'Neill, Beauvais and Scholl,
2016). I addition each of these may only work during specific situations, in the organization life
cycle or for specific organizations.