Organisational Structure for Whitlam Memorial Hospital

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Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................2
Strength and weakness of current functional structure.......................................................................3
Importance of organisational vision, mission and objectives.............................................................4
Proposed Organisational structure for WMH.....................................................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTION
In the modern day business, it has become crucial for the companies to make sure that
they have an organisational structure that suits their operations (Chaudoir, Dugan & Barr,

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2013). This helps an organisation irrespective of the industry to bring smoothness in the work
process. It is the role of the management to make sure that the organisational structure they
have incorporated adds value to their operations. In the health care unit organisational
structure plays a more vital role in the decision making process. This is due to the fact that
there are many decisions that have to be made by the workers at an instant. Every company
makes its mission, vision and objectives. The organisational structure helps the company in
working according to this structure. Whitlam Memorial Hospital is a 30 bed community
hospital in Sydney. It is necessary for the company of this scale to make changes in the
organisational structure as per the requirement of the firm. This will help the company in
solving the problems related with it. This essay highlights the strength and weaknesses of
current organisational structure at WMH. It also describes the importance of organisational
mission, vision and objectives as well as the link between them and organisational structure.
It also suggests about the organisational structure which best suits them.
Strength and weakness of current functional structure
Every organisational structure has its own strengths and weakness (Luxford, Safran &
Delbanco, 2011). The success of organisational structure depends on the way a company has
implemented it as well as the requirements it has. Presently the company has a traditional
bureaucratic structure. This is a hierarchical structure that helps in having control over the
sub-ordinate levels. This is top to bottom approach where each level has its own
responsibilities. Following such organisational structure, WHM gives power to the managers
to make decisions. It depends on his or her style of management that whether they would take
the consent of their junior level workers or not.
This structure has many types of benefits. This organisational structure enforces a predefined
rigid rules as well as standard procedures and processes are being followed (Harper, 2015).
This type of structure helps the large organisation like WMH to have more administrative
control over its operations. This also helps an organisation in terms of the fact that it fastens
the speed of strategic decision making. This type of organisational structure helps WMH in
reducing the problem due to conflict of interest. On the other hand this organisational
structure has some limitations. The first and foremost limitation of this organisational
structure is that it enhances the chances of employee being unsatisfied with the decision
making. This also demotivates innovation and creativity within the organisation. This is
based on the fact that a single person cannot generate as varied ideas especially when it is
related to inter-disciplinary domains (Kohl 3rd, et al., 2012). It can enhance employee