HML508 Creativity, Innovation and Change (8)

This subject provides students with an opportunity to explore contemporary conceptualisations of creativity, innovation and change and the interrelationships between these. Health manager and staff agency in relation to creativity, innovation and change is investigated as students complete work-based assessments in relation to their current or future health service contexts and roles. The aim is to enable health managers to judiciously facilitate creativity, innovation and change in their workplaces.

Availability

Session 2 (60)
Online
Bathurst Campus

Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: HML508. 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 Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • be able to describe and compare different conceptualisations of creativity, innovation and change and the relationships between these;
  • be able to critically analyse health services as sites of creativity, innovation and change;
  • be able to critically evaluate illustrations of creativity, innovation and change in reference to their current or future health service contexts and roles according to different worldviews;
  • be able to discuss manager and staff agency roles in relation to the judicious facilitation of creativity, innovation and change; and
  • be able to explain how creativity, innovation and change can be facilitated in a health service.

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:
  • Health services as sites of creativity, innovation and change;
  • Creativity;
  • Innovation;
  • Change;
  • Multidimensional and multilevel views of creativity, innovation and change;
  • Framing creativity, innovation and change according to different worldviews;
  • The notion of 'agency' in creativity, innovation and change; and
  • The 'dark side' of creativity.

The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: June 2022. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.

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