| Course ID: | HPAM 7700. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Management of Public Health Organizations I |
Course
Description: | Public health professionals assume leadership roles in organizations where they are responsible for planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting activities. This introductory management course is designed to expose students to concepts in modern public health administrative issues, analyze selected management techniques and perspectives using case-studies, and examine aspects of MPH core competencies related to leadership, communication, and management. |
| Oasis Title: | Mgmt of Public Hlth Orgs I |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in HPAM 7700E |
| Pre or Corequisite: | HPAM 7010 or HPAM 7010E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| 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. Examine the strategic planning sequence and identify the components of a strategic plan.
3. Analyze management projects using the principles of program planning, development, budgeting, management, and evaluation in organizational and community initiatives.
4. Analyze the human resources management model to a given case study, including the planning, recruitment, selection training, evaluation, and retention of personnel.
5. Assess the reactions to change within organizations and identify approaches to reduce the negative effects.
6. Analyze the various kinds of managerial communication that facilitate leading and controlling performance, including barriers and flow.
7. Explore the techniques of negotiation in selected case-studies.
8. Differentiate the purposes and techniques of formative process and outcome evaluation. |
| 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
• The Practice of Management in Health Services Organizations and Health Systems
• Managerial Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
• Strategic Planning
• Negotiation
• Marketing
• Resource Allocation
• Leadership
• Communication |