Florenz O.
Pagnanawon Leadership and management in Physical therapy
OPHT – 3-1
Advantages
Functional  Every employee performs in
accordance with their work
responsibilities.
 Each department has a
welcoming atmosphere.
 Enables for increased
productivity because each
department is responsible for
its own results, allowing for
greater performance.
 Workers with specific talents
are able to complete jobs
rapidly.
Divisional  Without relying largely on the
main firm, each division can
operate as an independent,
self-contained unit.
 High degree of specialization
 Making quick decisions
 A good place to learn about
strategic management.
 Because of job fragmentation
and specialization, they may
complete their responsibilities
rapidly.
 They're all working toward a
common goal: ensuring the
division's success.
Flatarchy  Limit the amount of
miscommunication that can
occur at the workplace.
 Permits each employee to
concentrate on what they do
best rather than trying to
please.
 Increased speed of innovation
 Improved decision-making.
Disadvantages
 Reduces the employee's
overall efficiency.
 Lack of growth as an
organization.
 Inflexibility to changes.
 The organization is divided
into departments, decision-
making takes a long time.
 Unhealthy competition working
with the other areas
 Not be able to communicate
more often which decreases
flexibility and innovation.
 Disloyal employees
 The divisional system may
lead to an overabundance of
autonomy among divisions.
 More expensive to operate
 Instead of seeing one other as
coworkers, they are pushed to
treat each other as
competitors.
 Not suitable for small
organizations.
 Difficult to control each
division.
 Limited sharing of ideas and
resources.
 It can result in a significant
amount of time being wasted.
 Can limit productivity.
 Affects their work-life balance.
 May find it difficult to connect
with their employees on a
personal level
 May limit the long-term growth
of the organization.
 Matrix  Allows people to shift between
projects or teams as needed,
allowing them to share their
knowledge, expertise, and
talents.
 The company's top
management communicates
with front-line personnel (open
communication).
 Teams remain loyal within the
organizational structure.
 Improves internal
communication.
 Potential for conflicting
management directives
 Slower decision-making
process
 Conflict between functional
and project managers is
expected.
 It is ineffective for long-term
projects.
 More expensive to maintain
 The presence of two leaders
can confuse an employee.

Q: For you, what is the best structure and why do you choose this type of
organizational structure?
In my opinion, I will choose a Flatarchy Organizational Structure because I want to start
at the beginning on how to make an organization. I want to know the first step on how to
run an organization. In a flatarchy, I have the freedom to choose the best people that
suits my organization, like recruiting professionals, to manage them efficiently. When it
comes to business, I want to build a clothing line. Because of this, I can see that I’m
going to be successful in the future. I can apply my knowledge about graphic designing
to start in a small way. When I was a first-year college, my dream was to make a
hospital around in our barangay. At first, I told myself that I would build a tertiary
hospital so we will no longer go to a different hospital here in Cavite. But when I realized
that, I needed to start in a small and simple way to achieve that intended. Now I want to
start with a primary hospital to learn different ways of delivering health care to small
people and manage my employees.