Topic > The Four Types of Organizational Culture - 1475

These organizations seek to find new opportunities to develop products, services and relationships and must be flexible, adaptable and comfortable with a certain degree of chaos to be successful (e.g. corporate high-tech). The Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) culture has some aspects of all four of these culture types, but I believe it is very similar to the collaboration culture. The HCA has a very strategic hierarchy with many levels of management and depends on rules and procedures due to the nature of its business, communication and autonomy throughout the organization which are very collaborative. While there is a need to be flexible and adaptable, there is a strong sense of common purpose tied to the organization's mission to provide the highest level of healthcare available in the communities served. • Control at HCA – HCA maintains a global control executive structure at the corporate level with subunits in individual hospital divisions. Each division has a CEO with its own executive leadership hierarchy that reports to the HCA CEO. Using input from his or her direct reports, the CEO develops the overall direction and vision of the organization and then uses the corporate structure to strategically realize it