Managing People in Healthcare Organisations

This short course covers three interrelated subject areas: Management and organisational behaviour, human resource management, and organisation development.

Throughout the course, there is a strong focus on creating a learning environment that enables students to:

• Explore and analyse best practice models, theories and approaches for each subject area.
• Reflect on and apply best practice in the context of their own organisation and experience.
• Develop the knowledge and skills needed to manage people, teams and change in healthcare settings.

By the end of the course, participants should:

• Understand and apply theories of organisational behaviour at group and individual level.
• Understand key human resource management theories, models and activities, and be able to apply them to organisational settings.
• Understand and be able to apply theories of organisation development and change to organisational settings.
• Enhance knowledge and understanding of best practice in managing people in healthcare systems.