Unit Code: HSM815

Unit Name: Managing Healthcare Organizations and Risks

Description: This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills to understand management and also with the ability to apply it to any healthcare organizations or any health related organizations. The course will cover the five basic management functions and the interrelated series of coordinated activities involved like planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. In addition, student will also learn strategies to problem solving. strategic marketing management, health information strategy, and supply chain management.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to: 1. Explain the major forces that determine the health of population and the required management functions, skills, and competencies used in any health care organization. 2. Plan at different management levels and the analysis of the systems towards organizing work tasks. 3. Organize positions and departments into complete healthcare organizations. 4. Formulate strategic plans for obtaining and retaining employees in a healthcare organizations. 5. Develop strategies to enhance employee motivation and the desired cultures and ethics in a healthcare organizations. 6. Explain the role of health managers in controlling organizational performance and problems faced in a health care organizations. 7. Critique the relationship between strategic management, healthcare marketing, healthcare information systems and strategies of achieving healthcare organization goals. 8. Analyse the components of SCM and strategies for an efficient SCM practices

Prerequisite: Minimum Entry Requirement.

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 20

Offered In: 2