HSM404 Management and Leadership of Health and Aged Care Services (8)

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.

Availability

Session 1 (30)
Online
Bathurst Campus
Session 2 (60)
Online
Bathurst Campus

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.

Subject Information

Grading System

HD/FL

Duration

One session

School

School of Biomedical Sciences

Enrolment Restrictions

Available only to postgraduate students in health related courses

Learning Outcomes

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

This 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

Indicative Assessment

The following table summarises the assessment tasks for the online offering of HSM404 in Session 1 2019. Please note this is a guide only. Assessment tasks are regularly updated and can also differ to suit the mode of study (online or on campus).

Item Number
Title
Value %
1
Organisational profile
20
2
Reseach and collaboration
35
3
Case analysis: change/conflict
45

The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: October 2020. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.

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