Question

Case study number 2: Review the definition of organizations and the five elements of that definition. In this case, how are the five elements or organizations evident for Graceland Memorial Hospital?

Graceland Memorial Hospital is a not-for-profit, community hospital located in a medium-sized urban area in the Midwest. The only other hospital that serves this community is a large, tertiary care teaching hospital affiliated with a major university medical center. When Jack Prestwood, vice president of Human Resources at Graceland, read the current Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations, he knew that he needed to comply with them. Under the newly found OSHA regulation, Graceland is required to enforce the correct usage of respiratory masks and conduct respiratory fit-testing to prevent the transmission of communicable diseases. In the past, Graceland employees who had frequent contact with patients who suffered from airborne communicable diseases were not fitted for a correctly sized respiratory mask. Therefore, to prevent large OSHA fines for noncompliance with the new regulations, Graceland's administration concluded that it must update its own regulations.

Answer 1

Answer:

We need to review the definition of organizations and the five elements of that definition in the below given case study for the Graceland Memorial Hospital.

Organization Definition: We could see that Graceland Memorial Hospital is operating like an organization, where a team of employees is working or the common purpose of healthcare in a planned and common approach. The team is directed to achieve the given target for the organization. Organization is commonly known as a group of people who works in a organized manner for a common goal in a coordinated efforts like team work system. This approach e are able to seen in the Graceland Memorial Hospital. The organization always ensures that they comply with the government requirements.

Five elements of the definition are as below

• Organized group of people: Yes we can see here in the case study that an organized group of people are working for their objective. Thus it meets the one element of the definition.
• Particular Purpose/ Common Purpose: We can see in the case study that the employees are working for a common purpose of OSHA compliance at the work place.
• Coordinated Efforts: We can see a good sense of coordination in the case study, as the groups of employees are demonstrating coordinating efforts.
• Division of Role/labor: We can see that work content or role is divided for the employees and each employee perform different part of the work/ different role in the organization.
• Hierarchy of Authority: Hierarchy of authority is seen in the case as Vice present is being mentioned, who has high authority than other employees.