Work culture and leadership- an analysis of your workplace

This essay is based on the work experience at a busy children’s department (CD) in urban India. The essay focuses on two aspects of the CD- the organisational culture and leadership issues. Let us describe the CD before we analyse these issues.

The children department is a busy 40 bedded facility with an in built Paediatric Accident and Emergency Unit. The two roles of the organisation are 1) to provide a health care to a city and semi urban population and 2) to train junior doctors thorough a three year clinical programme. There are two main areas of activity. There is an emergency department which contributes in part to the work load on the inpatient unit. The inpatient unit has two main sections – general care and cancer care

The workforce is headed by the Head of Department (HOD) and 2 Associate Professors (Assoc P), 8 Assistant Professors (AP) and 20 resident doctors.





















The eight permanent staff (PS) membe...