Organisational Structures and Culture: Assessment, Role of Culture, Government Policies, Monitoring and Accountability, Management Approaches, and Motivation in Public Service Organizations

ORGANISATIONAL
STRUCTURE, CULTURE,
AND POLITICS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Section 1...........................................................................................................................................3
1. Assessment of organisational structure....................................................................................3
2. Role of organizational culture and its leverage on employee behaviour.................................6
3. Effects of Local and Central Government policies on DHSC.................................................7
4. Monitoring and Accountability in DHSC................................................................................8
Section 2...........................................................................................................................................9
1. Analysing management approaches and styles............................................................................9
2. Determine the concept of motivation and how it applies to public service organizations........10
3. Reflection...................................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
The organizational structure focuses on the series of tasks and functions performed in any
entity. Framing a structure for a public sector undertaking is useful in outlining how the work
management flows through the entire network of business.
The report below is based on Department of Health and Social Care which is a UK-
government controlled entity offering policies on heath and social affairs.
Also, the paper will outline the organizational framework, norms and the importance of
local and central government policies empowered in the DHSC organization. The study also
focuses on the accountability system organized in the context of chain of command, span of
control, line of authority, etc. Defining the relationships between supervisors and subordinates,
the paper will assess the management approaches and styles, implication of motivation, and the
results of organizational behaviour on team performance.
MAIN BODY
Section 1
1. Assessment of organizational structure
The structure of an organization is one of the significant step to ensure how work is
performed and who holds the decision-making powers within the organizational framework. The
organizational structure entails how human resources are divided, grouped and made to
participate for a single objective of the government operated body.
For that matter, the study concentrates on the three types of common organizational
structure prevalent in the business entity (Katz, 2017).
1. Hierarchy Organizational Structure:
Being the most follow through organizational structure, this type of hierarchy structure
follows a conventional approach to make decisions where controlling powers are allotted to
different authorities. For instance, a group of employees working in finance department are held
answerable to the finance manager, who, in turn, reports to the director of an organization. Even
then, the director of a public sector undertaking, along with the advisory board and other
associated directors have to ask permission from the CEO of the company. Nonetheless, the CEO
of a business works under the charge of board of directors (Reznikov and et. al., 2018).

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 Functional organizational Structure:
This type of organizational structure is the most sought after structure adopted in big
firms with different working departments. Under this framework, each business functions like
human resource, finance, production, marketing and sales department are categorized on the
basis of specialization. To achieve a particular set of objectives, the management usually
involves these different departments and assign a departmental head who looks after the working
structure of the concerned department (Mousa and et.al., 2020).
Also, the management takes initiatives to consider the strength of each employee and
assign the job roles accordingly.
Hierarchy Organizational Structure