Allied Universal Organizational Structure
Organizational Structure
The organization that will be discussed is my previous employment at Allied Universal. Allied Universal is a protection agency “security” that spread throughout the California Bay Area. My location was in San Mateo at the San Mateo General County Hospital (SMH). This position of security exceeded the normal security roll to police report writing, 4-point restraints on patients, room searches, escorting psych patients to other parts of the hospital, and dealing with everyday 51-50, 52-50 which are mentally ill patients on a daily basis. SMH and San Mateo Sheriffs department (SMSD) have a contract with the hospital for security. Forcing Universal to adapt to the Para-military style operation that the sheriffs department provides its own deputies.
The structure that was introduced to new employees to follow was a chain of command. Project Security Manger, Manager, Supervisors, Corporal, and Officers. Project Security Manager is hand picked from the Sheriffs department someone of high rank lieutenant in SMSD. Project Security Manager oversees all decisions. Managers are in charge of weekly meetings and to deal with work conflicts. Supervisors/Corporal are on the floor from time to time to make sure breaks are given on time along with dealing with any dilemma with security and hospital staff. Officers are …show more content…
Giving a hypothetical scenario the difference of experience pilot and inexperience pilot, if one receives improper training and trains the next this cycle continues you will have a full staff of untrained workers in your work place. One of Allied Universal flaws were a high overturn rate of workers leading into another problem of understaffs. High turn over rates at Allied would force inexperience officers that just passed training to train the new officers. Leading to confusion as well as officers not being able to perform
The organization that will be discussed is my previous employment at Allied Universal. Allied Universal is a protection agency “security” that spread throughout the California Bay Area. My location was in San Mateo at the San Mateo General County Hospital (SMH). This position of security exceeded the normal security roll to police report writing, 4-point restraints on patients, room searches, escorting psych patients to other parts of the hospital, and dealing with everyday 51-50, 52-50 which are mentally ill patients on a daily basis. SMH and San Mateo Sheriffs department (SMSD) have a contract with the hospital for security. Forcing Universal to adapt to the Para-military style operation that the sheriffs department provides its own deputies.
The structure that was introduced to new employees to follow was a chain of command. Project Security Manger, Manager, Supervisors, Corporal, and Officers. Project Security Manager is hand picked from the Sheriffs department someone of high rank lieutenant in SMSD. Project Security Manager oversees all decisions. Managers are in charge of weekly meetings and to deal with work conflicts. Supervisors/Corporal are on the floor from time to time to make sure breaks are given on time along with dealing with any dilemma with security and hospital staff. Officers are …show more content…
Giving a hypothetical scenario the difference of experience pilot and inexperience pilot, if one receives improper training and trains the next this cycle continues you will have a full staff of untrained workers in your work place. One of Allied Universal flaws were a high overturn rate of workers leading into another problem of understaffs. High turn over rates at Allied would force inexperience officers that just passed training to train the new officers. Leading to confusion as well as officers not being able to perform