Program Overview

HSM404 Management and Leadership of Health and Aged Care Services

This subject examines the nature of management and leadership in health service organisations, emphasising 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

The subject is available in:

• Session 1 (30) - Online and Bathurst Campus
• Session 2 (60) - Online and Bathurst Campus

Subject Information

Grading System

The grading system for this subject is HD/FL.

Duration

The subject duration is one session.

School

The subject is offered by the School of Biomedical Sciences.

Enrolment Restrictions

The subject is 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 their 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 their own practice
• be able to explain the relationship between management/leadership and organisational performance with reference 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 their own workplace and justify recommendations for improvement

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:

• The nature of health service organisations
• 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 conflict
• Management and leadership of organisational change