HSM404 Management and Leadership of Health and Aged Care Services (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Allied Health (ALHEA)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject examines the nature of management and leadership in health service organisations. It emphasises foundations of organisation and management theory as a basis for understanding aspects of organisational behaviour including culture, power and politics, control, decision making, communication, groups and teams, conflict, leadership and change management.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
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| Distance | Bathurst |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: HSM404
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Available only to postgraduate students in health related courses
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to discuss the nature of health service organisations;
- be able to analyse own organisational context in relation to contextual and structural dimensions;
- be able to formulate an explanation of management in relation to evolutionary, historical and theoretical perspectives and relate to own practice;
- be able to explain the relationship between management/leadership and organisational performance with refererence to culture, power and politics, control, decision making, communication, groups and teams, conflict and change management;
- be able to analyse the management of change and conflict in own workplace and justify recommendations for improvement.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- The nature of health service organisatons
- Environment structure and design
- What managers do
- Organisational effectiveness
- Organisational control, problem solving and decision making
- Organisational control, power and politics
- Leadership
- Perception, attitudes and motivation
- Work groups and teams
- Communication and managing collaboration and a conflict
- Management and leadership of organisational change
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.