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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.
  • Future Challenges

    • Prioritize major internal and external factors that are affecting change in health care organizations.
    • Forecast future challenges and benefits of health care organizations.
  • Individual Performance Management

    • Explore the concept of creating a cultural environment for excellence.
    • Establish the relationship of quality employees to a quality organization.
    • Compare and contrast major motivational theories and their application to health care organizations.
  • Workforce Dynamics

    • Critique effective intra-organizational and inter-organizational communications and barriers to communication.
    • Profile the learning organization.
    • Analyze how job design, work processes, and performance expectations affect individual job satisfaction and successful organizational outcomes.
  • Organizational Performance

    • Evaluate systems and factors that define and shape health care organizations.
    • Analyze how organizational behavior affects quality, competition, and human relations.
    • Appraise the concept of organizational culture and its impact on health care services.
  • Decision Making and Organizational Structure

    • Evaluate the impact that fraud has on a health care organization.
    • Apply some of the tools and techniques available to aid decision making.
    • Establish a means to evaluate a decision’s importance.
  • Organizational/Management Theory

    • Illustrate factors that define and shape an organization.
    • Explain how accountability affects the behavior of an organization.
    • Describe organizational design, function, and processes.

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