Imagine you have studied business and management during your time at college and you have the good fortune of receiving multiple job offers after graduation. Congratulations! You will graduate in the coming months, and you must let your potential employers know your decision. The job offers you received vary with diverse types of organizations represented:

  5. The first job role is for a medical office manager position at Hope Health Care Clinic, a small healthcare operation where you will work directly with the office's owner.
  6. The second job role is for a product buyer position where you will work for a manager and a specialist to determine which products to buy for sale at Sunshine Medical Office.
  7. The third job role is for a business-to-business sales position where you will report to multiple managers and work in a team of different specialists for sales of specific health product lines at the Woods Hospital corporation.
  8. The last job role is for an independent medical sales associate position and will require you to make contacts with high-level clients for healthcare equipment, the ABC company that works with several other companies to increase sales and revenue.

You have studied organizational structures and know that Hope Health Care Clinic uses a line structure. Sunshine Medical Office uses a line-and-staff structure. Woods Hospital uses a matrix structure. ABC uses a virtual structure. All job roles are compensated similarly and are appealing to you. You must decide which job offer to accept based on how you want to work with other employees and what the reporting structure would be like for an entry-level employee.

Which job role would you select: 1. Business to Business Sales at Woods Hospital, 2. Product Buyer at Sunshine Medical Office, 3. Online Sales Associate at Hope Health Care Clinic, or 4. Independent Sales Associate at ABC?

After selecting your option, explain why you made that choice? And explain what benefits and disadvantages you see?