Introduction
The way that the management in an organization plans, controls and organizes work in the organization determines the success of the organization. The quality of leadership that the management has helps them in decision making. This paper will seek to analyze how the management in John & James healthcare organization can do to maximize its production and profits.
Description of Organization
John and James healthcare organization is a private organization that offers healthcare services to individuals in United States. John is a professional doctor while James is a graduate in business administration. These two individuals joined and started the healthcare organization as their source of income. The organization employs over one hundred doctors and nurses in its different departments. The hospital has a dual form of management where the owners of the organization determines the equipments that are to be bought and the time to do so. The doctors and nurses on the other hand have an executive that manages the way they carry out work in the organization. Doctors and nurses are fixed in specific departments where they do specific work. The work is assigned when the individual joins the organization and there is likelihood that the individual will remain in the same branch all of his or her life with the organization.
Improving Management in the Organization
The dual form of management in the organization hinders efficient planning since each group has its own plans that it would fulfilled. The owners want to make some profit and the professional executive wants quality equipments to do perfect work. One of the areas mostly affected by the dual leadership is in the purchase of equipments. The doctors at times propose equipments that the management feels are very expensive. The management requests the professional executive to propose some cheaper products or purchases less equipments. There should be cooperation between the two groups and the workers so that the best equipment can be bought (Carter prg.2). The two groups can even merge to form one team that will be holding regular meetings to discuss how they can improve the quality of the services and maintain the same level of profits. In the organization, doctors and nurses are assigned specific duties that each one is supposed to carry out. This means that the absence of an individual will lead to some work that will not be done completely. Some work requires several individuals from different departments where each individual performs part of the work and hands it over to another person. Proper training should be given to all individuals so that any person can perform a whole process and not part of a process (Diane p.190). This will allow sharing of workload if one department has a lot of work while individuals in another department are idle.
Motivation is very important in an organization because it increases the morale of employees. The management in the organization does not have a means of motivating employees. The fact that an individual can remain in department for all his or her life in the organization shows that there are promotions (Lamond p.1273). Individuals who contribute much to the success of the organization should be rewarded so as to keep them working harder and also challenge the others. Free lunch, less time to work, breaks, can also be used to motivate these workers (Robert p.92). The management should try and harmonize individuals in the different departments and help them to use their personal goals to achieve the bigger goal of the organization. The employees should also be set to free but be requested to be responsible in their actions. A set of rules should be written to ensure that the conduct of employees is standard and the rules should be available to every employee.
Conclusion
The management in an organization determines its success. John & James healthcare organization fails in planning on the right equipments and the time that should be done. Motivation of employees is also not a common aspect in the organization. The management in the organization can combine and involve each other in deciding what equipments are required and when to buy them. The organization should motivate employees to increase its output. Proper training to employees will ensure that an individual can work at a process as a whole and not part of the process.
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