1.
TOPICS FOR PREPARING PRESENTATIONS
1. Management Structure in Healthcare Organizations
2. Mission of Healthcare Organizations
3. Risk Management in Healthcare
2. CONTROL QUESTIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR KNOWLEDGE
ASSESSMENT (The answers need to be written in a notebook and shown to the teacher)
1. What does managing a healthcare structure mean?
2. What factors determine the mission of a healthcare institution?
3. What is risk management?
4. Name the main stages of the classical risk management process.
3. TEST ASSIGNMENT
In each of the proposed tests, mark one correct answer.
1. A relatively autonomous group of specialists of a specific profile with clearly structured
collaborative activities and established boundaries, created or existing to achieve a mission and
common goal: diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation activities, is:
A. Manager's sphere of activity
B. Healthcare organization
C. Management structure
D. Organization
2. Optimal distribution of goals and tasks among structural divisions and employees of the
organization is:
A. Management of a healthcare organization
B. Management structure
C. Organization
D. Analysis and control
3. The organizational structure that is bureaucratic in type and is associated with vertical division
of the organization from top to bottom, based on strict subordination of lower management levels
to higher management levels, is:
A. Linear organizational structure
B. Functional organizational structure
C. Linear-functional structure
D. Matrix organizational structure
4. Organizational structures in the healthcare sector based on divisional departmentalization by
consumer (patient), product (medical services), territorial principle, or a combination of these,
are:
A. Linear organizational structure
B. Divisional organizational structure
C. Linear-functional structure
D. Matrix organizational structure
5. The most flexible and adaptive type of organizational structure, common in project-based
organizations, based on collaboration among specialists from various institutions to solve a given
task, is:
A. Linear organizational structure
B. Divisional organizational structure
C. Linear-functional structure
D. Matrix organizational structure
6. The functions of healthcare institutions include:
A. Therapeutic and restorative
B. Preventive
C. Educational and research
D. All answers are correct
4. CASE
You have been invited to take the position of Human Resources Director in a large
company with approximately 3,000 employees and a well-developed branch network. The
company's main focus is the production and sale of consumer goods. The employee turnover rate
is between 8–10% per year. The organizational structure is linear-functional. The average
salary is above the industry average and the regional average. Bonuses and allowances are paid
according to a clear, rational, and transparent principle, meaning that all employees understand
what they will be compensated for. Currently, the company is exploring opportunities for further
growth, planning regular hiring of new employees across all categories in the coming year.
Unfortunately, there is currently no clear system of non-material motivation in the company.
Assignment:
1. Propose a concept for a non-material motivation system for the company's employees.
2. What should be the first steps? What resources will you need to implement the planned
program?
3. What pros and cons for the company's staff do you see in your proposed program?
