NR534 Week 4 Organizational Structure Power and Lines of Authority B

NR534 Week 4 Organizational Structure Power and Lines of Authority B 1 Part 1: Individual Describe the organizational structure and the lines of authority within the healthcare system where you work. Identify the relationship between the type of power observed and the authority line. My current organization is a not-for-profit organization with an extensive healthcare system with many hospitals, urgent care centers, outpatient surgery, and clinics. The organizational structure for the organization is a shared governance structure. Its organizational structure is a flat type of organizational structure, with board members, nurses, physicians, and management. Hess et al. 2020 explain that shared governance primarily focuses on purpose and process to mollify essential external credentialing agencies and is compelled to meet organizational goals credentialing bodies and the professional entities' plans. Decision-making within the organization of decentralized decision-making giving power to nurses over their practice. In our reading Marquis & Houston 2017, Hartzell, para. 3, write that formal organization emphasizes organizational stations and formal power whereas informal organization concentration is with the team, their relationships, and the informal power built. The structure of the communication lines used for the organization is informal as it believes in bringing information to its employees, starting at the top of the organizational chain and dispersing it to all of its entities. The executive team disseminates information via email to the entire system from its executive team on changes, additions to executive positions, and positive and negative events that are fundamental and need addressing. The organization's vision, mission, and values align with quality patient outcomes and building relationships to provide high-quality, evidence-based care to people everywhere. An enormous portion of its funding comes from governmental agencies such as Medicaid and Medicare. Having quality patient outcomes is the revenue pay base for the product which supports my organization provides to the community. Leadership in the organization use mixture of power to help the organization lead. Expert power is the characteristics of administration and all of the department leaders. My director uses a combination of expert power and referent power. Our department's organizational culture is made up of many units and has a matrix structure, in which subordinates report to leaders in the working unit's direct supervision. The culture is to provide all team levels to share or give input or ideas on improving daily work and improved patient outcomes. "T