Introduction & Theory
Make-up
Characteristics
Types
Miscellaneous
100
The systematic analysis of how organizations and their component parts act and interact.
What is Organizational Theory?
100
Defines the organization's reason or purpose for being.
What is Mission?
100
A term used to refer to the hierarchy and is depicted in vertical dimensions of organizational charts.
What is Chain-of-Command?
100
Departments and services are arranged according to specialty.
What is Functional Organizational Structure?
100
An administrative concept imbedded in how organizations are structured.
What is Bureaucracy?
200
A common framework in health care for analysis and application of organizational theory.
What is Systems Theory?
200
The articulated goal to which the organization aspires.
What is Vision?
200
The number of subordinates a supervisor manages.
What is Span of Control?
200
Functions necessary to produce a specific service or product are brought together into an integrated organizational unit under the control of a single manager or executive.
What is Service Line Structure?
200
The reflection of the norms or traditions of the organization and is exemplified by behaviors that illustrate values and beliefs.
What is Organizational Culture?
300
GHS, St. Francis, AnMed, Oconee Medical, Spartanburg Regional, and nursing homes.
What are examples local healthcare Business Organizations?
300
Expresses the values and beliefs that members of the organization hold about the nature of their work, about the people to whom they provide service, and about themselves and others providing the services.
What is Philosophy?
300
The degree to which an organization has rules, stated in terms of policies that define a member's function.
What is Formalization?
300
Providing staff with authority to make decisions at the place of interaction with patients is the hallmark of this organizational structure.
What is Flat Organizational Structure?
300
Goes beyond participatory management through the creation of organizational structures that facilitate nursing staff more autonomy to govern their practice.
What is Shared Governance?
400
Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses, American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, American Holistic Nurses Association, American Psychiatric Nurses Association NANDA, American Academy of Nursing, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, American Health Care Association, American Red Cross Nursing Service, American Society of Registered Nurses, The International Association of Nurses, National Institute of Nursing Research, National League for Nursing (NLN), Nursing Students Without Borders, National Student Nurses' Association (U.S.)
What are examples healthcare Individual Organizations?
400
Heal compassionately. Teach innovatively. Improve constantly.
What is the Mission of GHS?
400
Units of work may be in one building; in several buildings in one location; spread throughout a city; or in different counties, states, or countries.
What is Geographic Dispersion?
400
This Organizational Structure is complex and designed to reflect both function and service integrated together.
What is Matrix Organizational Structure?
400
Demonstrates that governance structures provide nurses with accountability that will be effective in recruiting and retaining nursing staff while also meeting consumers’ demands and remaining competitive.
What is a Magnet Hospital?
500
Organizational Culture, Organizational Technology & Organizational Structure
What are the identifying factors of Organizational Theory?
500
To bring compassion to health care and to be Good Help to those in need.
What is the Mission of St. Francis?
500
The location where a decision is made.
What is Centralization?
500
An example of this organizational structure is a director of pediatric nursing could report to both a vice president for pediatric services (the service-line manager) and a vice president of nursing (the functional manager).
What is Matrix Organizational Structure?
500
Division of labor or specialization, clear lines of authority, appropriate levels of discipline, unity of direction, suitable treatment of staff, the fostering of individual initiative, & the promotion of a sense of teamwork and group pride.
What are the Fayol Principles of Management?
M
e
n
u