International Finance Report: Healthcare Management Case Studies

This report delves into the realm of international finance within the healthcare sector. It begins by discussing the multifaceted role of a healthcare manager, emphasizing responsibilities such as policy decision-making, overseeing patient care, and managing change within supportive housing environments. The report then examines how organizational structure influences company culture, contrasting hierarchical and flat structures and their impacts on employee behavior and business efficiency. Finally, it presents various organizational structures within business, health, and social care companies, highlighting their unique characteristics and implications. The report covers the key roles and responsibilities of healthcare managers, change management, and the impact of organizational structure on culture and business functions. It provides a comprehensive overview of the healthcare management, organizational structure, and culture.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Scenario one – Discussing the role of healthcare manager..........................................................1
Scenario two - Examining organisational structure tends to impact organisational culture........3
Scenario three – Presenting varied organisational structures within business, health and social
care company...............................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Healthcare environment is a major concern within the field of medical service. It is of
crucial importance to take into consideration major factors in order to ensure the health of the
society. This way it is significant in maintaining effective healthy environment in health care
system. The care system focuses on providing the best possible care services to improve care
results and live a healthy life. This study will highlight on the role of the healthcare manager.
This study will also focus on how the structure of the organization tends to impact the culture of
the company. Moreover, this study also tends to mainly focus on the different organizational
structure within the business and also within health and social care organization.
MAIN BODY
Scenario one – Discussing the role of healthcare manager.
The healthcare manager tends to have wide set of responsibilities in order to effectively
remit the practice and also focuses on ensuring successful provision of the health and social care
services has been maintained significantly. All healthcare manager tends to work with the
physicians, tends to make the policy decision and helps in overseeing the care of the patient in a
relevant manner. Supportive housing within the healthcare mainly focuses on combing the low
barrier affordable housing within the healthcare system which mainly contributes in providing
the best possible support services to the vulnerable group of people (Palumbo, 2016). The key
role of the health care manager is to significantly focus on providing the assistance to the
vulnerable group of people and also comply with the other housing services. Supportive housing
is highly significant for the vulnerable group of people and helps in thriving the specific
community. One of the key significant role of the healthcare manager within the supportive
housing care setting is mainly associated with the change management. Moreover, managing
change is mainly linked with handling various complex situations in a highly prominent manner.
Change tends to occur on a continuous basis within the health and social care setting. However,
managing is considered to be as a dynamic, complex and a challenging procedure. Health care
organization in turn are considered to be highly complex. Change management is prominent
because it is useful in effectively offering the best possible solution to the problem and is
considered to be as a key prominent part linked to the supportive housing health system reforms
(Davidson and et.al., 2020). The healthcare manager must focus on significantly cultivating
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specific set of environment which in turn is conducive to change and commits and also overcome
to the change in a prominent manner.
The healthcare manager also focuses on effectively understanding the impact of the
healthcare manager in order to carry out the operations and services with utmost degree of
accuracy and efficiency. The healthcare manager mainly oversees the operations and activities of
the each departments in supportive housing and ensure that relevant set of services are provided
to the patient. This is useful in improving the working efficiency and helps in attaining better
care results and outcomes (Fiorio, Gorli and Verzillo, 2018). The healthcare manager of the
company must harness effective decision making abilities and also must have strong
communication skills in order to improve the way hospital operates. Another key relevant role of
the healthcare manager is to effectively ensure that they focuses on coordinating departmental
activities and ensures innovation. The health acre manager within the care setting is also
responsible for effectively managing the key personnel and also manage the day to day
operations. This is significant in attaining the goals and also ensures quality acre within the
supportive housing health and social care system. Supportive housing is considered to be highly
prominent in effectively aiding the vulnerable group of people and also people with key
disabilities. The health care manager mainly focuses on attaining the best possible learning
outcomes and also improve care results with utmost degree of accuracy an relevance. The
healthcare manager of the supportive house will be highly responsible for providing the
managerial set of insight and supervision associated with the supportive housing team. The
healthcare manager also effectively oversees all set of resident supportive services to the
vulnerable group of people and focuses on improving their care results and outcomes.
Maintaining in- depth degree of knowledge associated with the programs and services which has
been offered in supportive housing. The healthcare manager also tends to effectively ensure that,
there seems to be effective set of liaison between the multi- disciplinary team and the patient.
Another key prominent role of the health care manager within the supportive housing is to
effective collaborate with the key team members and tends to improve the business function and
operations with greater set of accuracy and key relevance (Shahid, Rappon and Berta, 2019).
They must also focus on effectively ensuring that they effectively align with the key goals and
objectives within the health and social acre system. There key role is to carry out strategic
planning and also inspire the key members within the group and tends to receive appropriate set
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of healthcare services with utmost degree of accuracy and efficiency. The key significant role of
the healthcare manager is to ensure that, they must focus on fostering an environment to provide
the best possible quality services to vulnerable group of people within the supportive housing. It
also focuses on ensuring that, they effectively market the efforts in order to make sure that the
organization tends to function in a smooth manner. The healthcare manager within the
supportive housing mainly focuses on effectively complying with the management and
leadership skills in order to deliver the best possible care to the vulnerable group of people
(Healthcare Management & Managers: Roles & Responsibilities, 2020). They work in varied
sphere of the practice and focuses on solving the problem with the greater set of accuracy and
efficiency. It helps in monitoring key quality of work and also tends to oversee the the work of
different personnel within the supporting housing. It's key role is to also significantly focus on
managing the conflict and provide the team with the best possible solution to the problem with
high degree of accuracy and relevance. Another key significant role of the health care manager is
to implement and also follow up relevant set of legislations within the care setting. This way it
improves the business efficiency and attain wider set of results.
Scenario two - Examining organisational structure tends to impact organisational culture.
Organizational culture is mainly linked with the collection of the expectations, values and
practices which helps in guiding and also informing the key set of actions to all the team
members within the company. Organizational culture is considered to be as the specific set of
internal values and key behaviours within the organization. Culture in turn manly comprise of
the belief, thinking, experience and future expectations. It is mainly intuitive and is based upon
the emotional responses. There seems to be specific set of collection of trait of the employees
which makes an organizational culture (Ushakov and et.al., 2016). There are varied set of
services which in turn tends to take place within health and social care provisions in order to
integrate and also focuses on forming partnership together in order to gain optimum level of care.
A small hierarchical GP surgery join together with the flat structure social enterprise which has
been run by the social workers. A flat structure within the organization is mainly linked with
only few layers of the management between the service workers and management within the
company. Within the flat organizational structure, the manager of the company tends to have
wide span of control with the key subordinates. This way it helps in improving the business
performance and efficiency with greater accuracy and key relevance. A flat structure within the
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organization will in turn eventually results in taking faster set of decision and helps in improving
the performance as well as business accuracy with greater relevance.
It has been stated that, when the organisational structure and also the existing
organizational structure are highly compatible then it improve the business performance and
efficiency with the greater degree of accuracy and relevance. The organizational structure tends
to significantly direct the behaviour and attitude of the employees (Norton and et.al., 2019). The
structure of the organization tends to largely influence the culture and environment within the
health and social care setting. The organizational culture is useful in effectively reflecting the
work ethics, values and mentality of the employees and owners of the organization. There must
be positive and friendly culture within the organization which is useful in effectively
encouraging creativity and innovation within the work setting. The organizational structure tends
to impact organisational culture and it is also highly relevant in improving the business
functions and attain the goals of the organization. Moreover, the structure of the organization
develops under the key influence of the organizational culture. This in turn also largely
influences the ability of the firm to implement the key changes within the business in an effective
and significant manner. The flat organization structure shapes the culture of the company on the
basis of what is accepted within the company and what is not acceptable.
As per the Handy theory, in order for the business to be highly successful the
management must trust the employees and attain higher operational goals and efficiency. He has
effectively outlined four types of culture which mainly includes power, role, person and task.
The power culture helps in demonstrating that, an effective centralized culture is useful in
making key decision. This usually occurs in a small hierarchical structure where the owner of the
business dominates. The role culture helps in demonstrating that, there seems to be more
formalised culture where they focus on effectively setting clear set of rules and procedures to
carry out the business operations (Chamberlain and et.al., 2016). This culture is mainly
appropriate for the medium to the large organizations. The person culture helps in demonstrating
that, individuals within the organization tends to have considerate degree of freedom in order to
act on an independent basis. The task culture helps in demonstrating that, this culture mainly
focuses on specific projects and tasks. Individuals take part in sharing ideas and decision making
process. Joining together a small hierarchical GP surgery with that a flat structure social
enterprise may largely influence the existing set of culture within both the organization.
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A small hierarchical structure tends to focus on effectively defining the corporate structures and
levels. However, here the structure of the organization in turn is mainly defined by the level of
importance. The work environment and the culture is set to be formal within the organisation.
There is also strict degree of institutional procedures within the place for guidance. It helps in
complying with the leadership culture and mainly emphasize upon the predictability and
efficiency. On the other hand, a flat structure within the organization will eventually results in
taking faster decision and also helps in improving the performance as well as business accuracy
with greater degree of relevance (Kilbourne and et.al., 2018). However, the culture of the
organization in turn is mainly defined by the behaviour, values and attitude of the employees
within the company. Combining flat structure and hierarchical structure tends to change the
culture of the business and attain high degree of goals and efficiency. Joining together these
organizational structures will focus on ensuring that the complete and high degree of cooperation
has been ensured within the company and also helps in dispersing the accountability and
responsibility of the each person within the health and social care stetting. This leads to culture
where there are two set of commands and one effective functional lines. This is considered to be
prominent for the success of the company and keep the morale of the employees significantly
high.
Scenario three – Presenting varied organisational structures within business, health and social
care company.
Hierarchical organizational structure:It is also referred to as a line organization and is
considered to be as a chain of command of the company (L'Hommedieu and et.al., 2019). This
mainly goes from the senior executives of the company to the executives and to the general
employees. This company has multiple level and the person who is at the highest level tends to
hold high degree of power. However, this hierarchical structure is usually represented in a form
of pyramid.
The key advantages of the Hierarchical organizational structure
 It is considered to be useful in clearly defining the reporting relationship and also focuses
on the division of authority.
 It is highly significant in detailing the corporate ladder and also defines the promotional
structure.
 It is also significant in specializing the work of each employee.
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 It is also highly significant in cultivating strong set of relationship among the employees
within team.
The key disadvantages of the Hierarchical organizational structure
 Hierarchical organizational structure leads to bureaucratic hurdles which eventually
results in delay in the attainment of the goals. It also results in encouragement to the employees to focus on prioritizing their own
department and also direct the supervisors.
Flat organizational structure: This organizational structure is mainly linked with only
few layers of the management between the service workers and management within the
company.
The key advantages of the Flat organizational structure
 In this structure, the employees of the company are more responsible ad independent.
 It is significant in improving the communication as well as the interaction among the key
employees (Davidson and et.al., 2020).
 It is of utmost accuracy which helps in implementing the new set of ideas and practice
with less risk.
The key disadvantages of the Flat organizational structure
 In this structure, the employees of the company tends to lack supervision.
 It has poor set of scalability when the companies tend to grow. The employees within the company lacks supervision.
Functional organizational structure: It tends to have a centralized set of structure . The
employees of the company are grouped on the basis of skills, speciality and related set of roles. It
is based on the basis of level of hierarchy which comprises of varied departments under the
direction of designated leaders.
The key advantages of the Functional organizational structure
 This structure is significant and useful for the organization because it helps the
employees or workers within the health and social care organization to develop
specialized set of roles.
 It is also relevant in boosting up each individual department and also attain self
sufficiency and innovation (Chamberlain and et.al., 2016).
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 It is highly significant in scaling up the work easily to attain common goals and
objectives.
The key disadvantages of the Functional organizational structure
 Functional organizational structure does not tend to encourage interaction and
communication with the different departments.
 It leads to lack of understanding across the departments within the care sector.
 It focuses on the departmental goals and neglect overall goal and objectives of the
company.
A new organization has been significantly set up and will focus on promoting the service
user involvement within the Southwark. The functional organizational structure will be used
within the health and social care organization. This organizational structure has been used
because it is highly significant in effectively defining the key functions which in turn has been
carried out by the management positions and the key functions which tends to happen within the
company. The employees within the company has been specifically grouped within the
department on the basis of speciality, skills and other related roles. This structure has been used
for the new organization because it is useful in significantly developing the key specialized set
of roles. It is also significant in effectively boosting up the each individual department and also
focuses on attaining self- sufficiency as well as the key innovation. The functional organizational
structure is relevant in effectively scaling up the work easily in order to attain the common goals
and the objectives. It is useful in effectively offering high degree of specialization and helps in
improving the staff working skills within the health and social care setting. This organizational
structure is prominent for the new organization in enhancing the work efficiency and also tends
to improve the business productivity with the specialized set of skills and technology. It helps the
department to focus and excel in their area of work and specialize in their task. It is also useful in
improving the operational speed and also ensures clarity. It helps in stating clear line of
management and helps the employees to understand their roles and responsibilities within the
heath and social care setting. It is also considered to be highly significant in effectively setting
the definite set of relationship between the divided units of the health and social care company. It
is relevant in the establishment of the attainment of the common gaols and objectives and
improves the operational efficiency. The functional organizational structure also focuses on
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using the key principles of the specialization which is mainly based on the functions and is very
useful for the new health and social care organization.
CONCLUSION
From the study it has been summarized that, managing change is one of the key role
which has been performed by the healthcare manager in health and social care. Change
management is prominent because it is useful in effectively offering the best possible solution to
the problem. The healthcare manager mainly oversees the operations and activities of the each
departments. The healthcare manager must focus on fostering an environment to provide the
best possible quality services. Organizational culture is considered to be as the specific set of
internal values and key behaviours within the organization. As per the Handy theory, there are
four types of culture which mainly includes power, role, person and task. Functional
organizational structure is significant and useful for the organization because it helps the
employees within the health and social care organization to develop specialized set of roles. This
structure helps in developing the key specialized set of roles and also boost up each individual
department.
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