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HSM500 Online Management Practicum (32)

Abstract

Students will work in teams acting as a virtual management consultancy, or will work on a managerial project, for a host health organisation. The host health organisation will be identified and a meeting will be scheduled early in the academic session to negotiate the nature of the consultancy task. The team will need to adopt a variety of roles, following that consultation, to produce a proposal for the consultancy, outlining the expected roles and tasks required to complete the consultancy and their expected allocation to individuals, and the proposed milestones. A short period of negotiation is proposed to confirm the deliverables, including milestone reports, between the student team, subject coordinator/s and the host organisation representatives. Students are expected to draw on the knowledge, skills and abilities that have been developed in completing the eight core subjects prior to enrolling in this capstone learning experience.

+ Subject Availability Modes and Location

Session 1
DistanceBathurst Campus
Session 2
DistanceBathurst Campus
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Subject information

Duration Grading System School:
Two sessionsHD/FLSchool of Biomedical Sciences

Enrolment restrictions

Available only to postgraduate students who have completed the core subjects (equivalent to the Graduate Diploma in Health Services Management post 2011 requirements) and who have met the entry requirements for the Master of Health Services Management

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • be able to develop a collaborative proposal to undertake a management consultancy following an Expression of Interest Request (EoIR) from a health service organisation.
  • be able to demonstrate managerial knowledge, skills, abilities and understandings acquired individually, and collectively, in the identification, investigation, analysis, reporting and recommendations arising from the management consultancy
  • be able to develop a document and/or presentation that clearly, concisely and accurately describes the process of investigation and reporting on the activities of the management consultancy, and the basis for the recommendations, including resource implications.
  • be able to critique personal and team performance in a collaborative online management practicum from the perspective of a developing health services management practitioner using reflection

Syllabus

The subject will cover the following topics:
  • Topics and learning resources will be drawn from the previous eight core subjects will be included in the practicum resources
  • In the context of the OMP, additional learning resources will be provided regarding teamwork and team-building strategies, negotiating, communication, project management, data collection, analysis and presentation. Other capacity building resources can be requested, as deemed necessary, from the Subject Coordinators.
  • Literature will be provided to support the learning design, with Talbot's 1997 conception of management development providing a useful framework. This would be supported by literature relating to learning contracts; cognitive apprenticeships; authentic learning; workplace or work-integrated learning or situated learning depending on the proposal identified by the host organisation.

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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.