Instructor(s):
Myers, Valerie; Banaszak-Holl, Jane
Prerequisites: MHSA Candidate, MPH Candidate in HMP, or P.I.
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.
HMP620
Understanding the structure and management of nonprofit health organizations
Winter
term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Banaszak-Holl, Jane
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or PI
Nonprofit organizations face unique challenges because of their ownership, including greater needs to motivate employees through culture, to manage volunteer workforces and complex stakeholder relations within communities. This course will focus on the analysis of the goals, environmental conditions and organizational structures of specifically nonprofit health organizations, including a variety of smaller (and largely, non-health services) community-based nonprofits. This course is explicitly targeted to meet the needs of those interested in policy and those who may manage non-health services organizations.
HMP643
Managing People in Health Organizations
Fall
term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Banaszak-Holl, Jane
Prerequisites: grad status
This course provides the knowledge and skills for understanding and effectively managing individuals and groups within health care organizations. We consider a wide variety of motivations that draw individuals to their jobs and keep them productive. We also consider why organizations form small groups and the dynamics of these groups over time. Students learn techniques for persuasive communication and conflict management, develop strategies for dealing with interpersonal problems in an organizational setting, and processes for handling work teams. Common organizational problems that students solve include choosing the right person through the hiring process, evaluating employee performance, and negotiating contracts.
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