Organizational power structures in hospitals and health centers

Abstract

The author deals with the organizational power structure. Power is a central phrase is his work, and studies. Researches of organizational behaviour tend to focus on production companies and bureaucracies, mainly. Other organizations get much less attentions. One of the neglected topics of organization sociology is what are the main differences among the organizational power structure of different kinds of organizations. For example what are the differences of power structures of companies, bureaucracies for clients, and political bureaucracies, the different supervisory authorities, hospitals, police departments, courts, prisons, prosecutor’s offices, schools, etc. The previous article of the author dealt with the special type of organizations – the irresponsible organizations – its power structures. This study analyse another type of organizations, the hospitals, and its specialities of power structure, and power games. To understand their qualitatively different power structures helps better understanding of their functioning, and their behaviours and roles in the inter-organizational power networks, and games, too.