Managing In Today's Health Care Organizations –

hcs514

(3 credits)

This course focuses on the adaptation of organizational management to evolving health systems. Students will examine organizational theory, organizational performance, structure, change management and human resource management. Students apply various organizational theories to contemporary issues.

This graduate-level course is 6 weeks. To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.

Topics and Objectives

Organizational/Management Theory
- Describe organizational design, function, and processes.
- Explain how accountability affects the behavior of an organization.
- Illustrate factors that define and shape an organization.
Decision Making and Organizational Structure
- Establish a means to evaluate a decision’s importance.
- Apply some of the tools and techniques available to aid decision making.
- Evaluate the impact that fraud has on a health care organization.
Organizational Performance
- Appraise the concept of organizational culture and its impact on health care services.
- Analyze how organizational behavior affects quality, competition, and human relations.
- Evaluate systems and factors that define and shape health care organizations.
Workforce Dynamics
- Analyze how job design, work processes, and performance expectations affect individual job satisfaction and successful organizational outcomes.
- Profile the learning organization.
- Critique effective intra-organizational and inter-organizational communications and barriers to communication.
Individual Performance Management
- Compare and contrast major motivational theories and their application to health care organizations.
- Establish the relationship of quality employees to a quality organization.
- Explore the concept of creating a cultural environment for excellence.
Future Challenges
- Forecast future challenges and benefits of health care organizations.
- Prioritize major internal and external factors that are affecting change in health care organizations.

The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.

Managing In Today's Health Care Organizations –

hcs514

Organizational/Management Theory

Decision Making and Organizational Structure

Organizational Performance

Workforce Dynamics

Individual Performance Management

Future Challenges

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