UM SPH Academic Courses

HMP616 Understanding Organizations

Fall term(s)

3 Credit Hour(s)

Instructor(s): Myers, Valerie; Banaszak-Holl, Jane

Prerequisites: MHSA Candidate, MPH Candidate in HMP, or P.I.

Description: This course provides an overview of key issues confronting modern organizations, with an emphasis on healthcare organizations but attention to supplier, customer, and other partnering organizations. The issues will be studied from several perspectives to familiarize students preparing for work in health care organizations with a working understanding of both organizational dynamics and approaches to understanding them. Students completing the course should understand fundamentals of how organizations are formed, governed, designed, and improved. They will also learn how workers and organizations related to each other, and how organizations relate to their environment and other organizations.

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