title: Understanding organizations: a primer for occupational medicine physicians.
abstract: By comparing organizational dynamics to anatomy and how those organizations work to physiology, Dr. Sperry helps occupational physicians understand the organizational dynamics under which they work. Anatomy is discussed in terms of the organization's structural, cultural, leader, worker, and strategy subsystems. The process by which organizations develop, adapt, and decline also is described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sperry
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010820:Physicians