Leading Health Professionals HLED 7130

Course offerings

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Integrate the distributed leadership applications of the LEADS Frameworks with the domains of human resources and labour relations issues in the Canadian health system.
• Apply LEADS Framework to the leadership of health professionals, service providers and contractors who are engaged in health systems across Western Canada.
• Differentiate organizational challenges and strategies related to human resource policy and regulations.
• Differentiate organizational challenges and strategy related to complex labor relations policy and regulations.
• Apply leadership skills to employee recruitment, on boarding and employee engagement.
• Apply the leadership skills needed for using the collective agreements as the bridge that links the employees and the organizational leaders into a common base of understanding.
• Participate as an engaged leader in health sector job design, selection processes, performance improvement and need discipline of employees.
• Participate as an engaged leader in handling conflict appropriately and constructively and providing leadership when differences of opinion arise.
• Analyze the Full Time Equivalents needs for the work required within the existing resources available.
• Assess complex labor relations of the health care setting in the context of labour agreements.
• Propose strategies to lead members of the health care team in complex and stressful environments.
• Initiate appropriate professional judgment in the applicable health care settings related to dispute resolution, grievance handling and labor negotiation.
• Utilize professional judgment in identifying, documenting and communicating issues in leadership situations.

Effective as of Fall 2012

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