Topic: Organizational Structure and Culture
Order Description
Obtain a nursing organizational chart for your agency, department, or service area (see attachment)
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following:
Identify the type of organizational structure.
How does the structure create an environment of support for client-centered care?
Discuss the use of information systems, communication methods, and a decision making-ability with culture and organizational structure of the hospital where you work (elaborate at free will here, use general concepts applied to my hospital)
From the organizational chart from your health care setting: discuss the various lines of communication and reporting. Identify what you observe to be the formal and informal reporting lines and look at issues of power and control, as well as whom the real leaders in this organization are.
How are the social and cultural influences of your community integrated into the delivery of care in your organization? (My organization being the hospital I work for; from where the organizational chart was obtained, elaborate at free will, applied general concepts)
How do generational differences influence the organizational culture of the workplace? (The work place being a hospital and the generational differences refers between nurses)
Format your paper according to APA guidelines.