Course Description
Public health professionals assume leadership roles in organizations where they are responsible for planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting of activities. This course is designed to stimulate critical thinking about modern public health administrative issues, address DrPH core competencies, and develop selected management techniques and perspectives.
Athena Title
Adv Mgmt of Public Hlth Orgs
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in HPAM 8700
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Describe management functions, organizational concepts, and roles related to the public health sector and its external environment, and differentiate between management and leadership. 2. Describe the strategic planning sequence, identify the components of a strategic plan, and explain how planning differs from forecasting. 3. Design a management project using the principles of program planning, development, budgeting, management, and evaluation in organizational and community initiatives. 4. Develop and present a budget, give selected financial information, and defend your budgetary decisions. 5. Apply the human resources management model to a given case study, including the planning, recruitment, selection training, evaluation, and retention of personnel. 6. Assess the reactions to change within organizations and identify approaches to reduce the negative effects. 7. Analyze the various kinds of managerial communication that facilitate leading and controlling performance, including barriers and flow. 8. Delineate selected theories of motivation and use them to explain behaviors of people employed in organizations and community systems. 9. Apply the techniques of negotiation in a simulation. 10. Differentiate the purposes and techniques of formative process and outcome evaluation. 11. Develop a management project that applies management concepts in the course to address the ever-changing issues in the public health environment. 12. Formulate one’s own management philosophy and style relative to the course content and establish goals and strategies to develop and sustain one’s management capacity.
Topical Outline
• Overview of the Healthcare System: Healthcare in the United States • Management and Managers: Types and Structures of Health Services Organizations and Health Systems • Healthcare Technology • Ethical and Legal Environment • The Practice of Management in Health Services Organizations and Health Systems • Managerial Problem-Solving and Decision-Making • The Quality Imperative • Strategic Planning • Negotiation • Marketing • Controlling and Allocating Resources • Designing • Leading • Communication