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Unit of Study PBHL5010 - Leadership and Management in Health (2021)

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Unit description

Offers the contextual, organisational and personal insights needed for healthcare professionals to lead and manage in the healthcare system, in addition to the specific discipline or professional skills and knowledge of their own health vocation. Students will learn how to understand and accept individual differences, develop teams and cope with the power and politics of organisations. The contemporary complexities and dilemmas of healthcare provision in a constrained operating environment will be addressed. 

Unit content

  • Setting the context: the health care system
  • Theories of management in health care systems
  • The genesis of leadership theory
  • Challenging leadership, its nature and alternatives
  • Diversity: being ‘different’ in the health care system
  • Change, innovation and the future of health leadership and management

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
SCU Online
Study Period1,5
Study Period1,5

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

explain the broader system, organisation and group (team and unit) context in which their particular professional occupation or discipline is set and relate it to existing theory

summarise and evaluate the extant body of knowledge on leadership and management

reflect on interpersonal skills as a leader and/or manager

apply existing theory and research to the work setting

critique existing theory and research and challenge prevailing paradigms, world views, values and taken-for-granted ideas

apply an evidence-based approach to leadership and management in health

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