Question

Identify organizational structure and governance features of globalization that you think are the most important. Provide one example of a structure and one example of a feature, and explain how each influences public health practice.

Answer 1

Globalisation is the word used to describe the growing interdependence of the world's economies, cultures, and populations, brought about by cross-border trade in goods and services, technology, and flows of investment, people, and information.

Organisational structure can be influenced by many different aspects of globalization. In this , we will explore organizational structure and the impact globalization can have on it.

Globalization and Organizational Structure

Organizational structure is a very complex issue. When we talk about organizational structure, we are talking about how a company links organizational departments, functions or geography to accomplish its goals.

You see, if an organization does not develop its own structure, it will self-organize, which means it will develop a structure on its own. That is why companies organize themselves in ways that help them produce the product or service they make as efficiently as possible.

Taking this thought process and blending in globalization, we can discuss how organizational structure is impacted or influenced to change by globalization.

Main Aspects

There are three main aspects to consider that relate to organizational structure and globalization. In many ways, these aspects are present if a company does not have globalization pressures put upon it, but they take on a different perspective when globalization is involved.

Planning Strategy

Most companies plan a strategy to go to market with their products. First, let us look at an organization that is not influenced by globalization. They would develop a strategy to go to market with the resources and perspectives they have from here in the United States. If we incorporate globalization, they will have additional resources (materials, knowledge and human capital) outside of the United States with which to work.

Having these additional aspects can and does influence planning, and hence, structure. For instance, what if a company finds that an office in Dubai can make a widget better and cheaper than they can in the United States. The company would shift production there, and that would change planning as to how the company will price, ship and incorporate the widget from Dubai into the company's finished product. Since the company has access to better or lower-cost production, they can change their strategy as it relates to how they go to market.

Leaderships strategy

A leadership strategy is a map that aligns investments in leadership development with the strategy, goals, and aspirations of the business.

Related to health practice

As borders disappear, people and goods are increasingly free to move, creating new challenges to global health. These cannot be met by national governments alone but must be dealt with instead by international organizations and agreements

Every year, the same ritual takes place at changing locations in the Western world. While the heads of the eight leading industrialized nations meet at their annual G8 summit to discuss the global state of affairs, a wide variety of organizations and protesters meet in parallel to decry what they see as the negative effects of globalization. Notwith-standing these protests, whether one sees globalization as a tool to overcome poverty, hunger and disease in the world or whether one feels threatened by its consequences, one thing is certain: globalization is here to stay. Often narrowly defined as the increasing integration of the world's economies, globalization is in reality a powerful development that presents new challenges at the beginning of this millenniumge of information.