Building an Organizational Structure for Whitlam Memorial Hospital

Running head: BUILDING AN ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 1
Building an Organizational Structure
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Whitlam Memorial Hospital (WMH)
Introduction
The success of any organization is based on the type of the organizational structure being
applied. Organizational structure plays a very important role when it comes to management of all
activities within an organization ranging from duty allocation, coordination as well as
supervision. The organization structure is also vital in ensuring that goals, objectives, vision, and
mission of a given organization are achieved. Organizations decide on which structure to use
depending on the mission, vision, and objectives (Harper, 2015). The content of this analytical
essay is aimed at evaluating the current Whitlam memorial Hospital (WMH) organizational
structure and how it is linked to the vision, mission, and goals of the hospital. The organization
management feels that the community is expanding and that they should restructure the hospital
to meet the changing demands of the community. This essay will examine the current
bureaucratic system and suggest a suitable organization structure which can help the hospital
management meet their mission, vision and objectives.
Thesis statement
The success of any organization depends on the type of organizational structure and
strategies employed. Organizational structure helps an organization with management of all
activities ranging from duty allocation, coordination as well as supervision thus keen
consideration when selecting organizational structure.

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Strengths and limitations of the current Whitlam memorial Hospital (WMH)
organizational structure
Whitlam memorial Hospital (WMH) is current using traditional bureaucratic
organizational structure. This current organizational structure at Whitlam memorial Hospital
(WMH) is evidently backed with some strengths and limitations of the Sidney community health
care environment which has been currently changing healthcare demands. With the current
organizational structure, Whitlam memorial Hospital (WMH) can only accommodate 130
patients as the currently being used bureaucratic structure can only offer 130-bed capacity. This
is one disadvantage of the bureaucratic organizational structure which is not flexible to allow the
capacity increase (Toles, Colón-Emeric, Naylor, Barroso & Anderson, 2016). The hospital has
an only 130-bed facility for over ten years which is an indication that the current organizational
structure is not perfect to accommodate the changing health demands of the community. Even
though the majority of the hospitals in the area may have less bed capacity compared to Whitlam
memorial Hospital (WMH), it is evident that the current organization structure cannot meet the
organizational vision, mission, and objectives.
Whitlam memorial Hospital (WMH) for over a period of ten years has been offering the
same medical services to the community. According to the provided case study, Whitlam
memorial Hospital (WMH) with the current organizational structure has only been providing;
general acute medical services, surgical services, obstetric medical services and emergency to the
local Sidney community (Yinan, Tang & Zhang, 2014). Whitlam memorial Hospital (WMH) for
the last 10years has not shown any sign of improvement in their line of service delivery to the