). This organization has extreme logistics, supply chain, and human resource needs to be addressed every day while having to depend on donations, government grants and other funding sources as they are providing care to individuals that are unable to pay for their services. The organizational structure and organizations design play an immense role in this non-for-profit organization being able to keep their mission going strong and provide help to those in dire need.
The organizational structure of Doctors Without Borders can be described as a matrix structure as evidenced by an employment advertisement for a field coordinator, “Field coordinators serve as Project Coordinators or Heads of Mission and are responsible for operational, financial, and human resources management, as well as communication with and representation of MSF toward local, national, and international actors” (Doctorswithoutborders.org, 2013, para. 1). This position is on the ground in the area where the help is needed, and needs to be able to coordinate with other
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The project management organization structure could also be a potential fit as there are definite roles needed in this field, such as medical, but there needs to be the ability for other fields of work to be on the same project as this requires more than one field to get the job completed. According to Gido and Clements (2008), “The matrix-type organization is kind of a hybrid – a mix of both the functional and project organization structures. It provides the project and customer focus of the project structure, but it retains the functional expertise of the functional structure” (p. 409). That is the key to why this is the most successful organizational structure for Doctors Without