Course Overview
Examines the relationship between structure and function in health care organizations. Designed for today's rapidly changing health care environment, explores ways of applying decentralized multi-disciplinary teams, multi-functional managers, and technologically adept personnel to create organizational flexibility. Enables analysis of the organizational structure and policy in participant's health care organization to identify its strengths and weaknesses, and relate these structures to organizational flexibility. Helps to identify and relate the key attributes of learning culture to the organization and prepare a knowledge management program to support extensive collaboration and decision making within the organization. A major assignment in the course requires the formation of or inclusion on a team at the student's place of work, and an analysis of the functioning of that team.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
This course aims to equip participants with the knowledge to understand and the capacity to operate as an innovative leader within the health care environment. The participant will develop leadership competence in team development, organizational design and dynamics, process improvements, knowledge management, and human resource systems.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the relationship between individual, team, and organizational levels of an innovative organization.
- Explain key concepts in building an organization culture that promotes innovation and flexibility.
- Modify a current process or structure at your workplace that results in increased organizational innovativeness and flexibility.
- Design and develop a high performance work team.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of team performance.
- Manage the complex interrelationships within an organization.
- Promote greater cooperation in an organization.
- Design a framework to assess innovative processes across individual, team, and organizational levels of an organization.
- Design and manage an organizational knowledge base.
- Create human resources processes that support teams and innovation.
- Create an organizational culture that creates ongoing awareness of external drivers of change (environmental trends, technological opportunities, and customer needs).
- For your health care field, identify the drivers and barriers of innovation.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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