Professional Documents
Culture Documents
PLANNING
CONTROL
DECISION-MAKING
PLANNING
Chief Executive Officer – the highest level administrator. Reports to the board
and responsible for managing the organization.
Chief Financial Officer – responsible for the financial aspects of running the
organization.
Lateral relationship
Profit Center
INCENTIVES AND MOTIVATION
• Fixed Cost – stay the same even if the volume of patients increases or
decreases. One example of this would be the rent on a nursing home.
• Decreasing Return of scale – at very large volumes, the cost per patient
tends to increase. This might be attributed to increase in fixed cost like
additional facility.
ECONOMICS AND INCENTIVES
1. Government intervention
2. Lack of information on the part of the consumer
3. Lack of competition or monopoly
4. Actions of individuals do not result in optimal output
because their actions do not consider externalities
that they generate.