| Unit name | Leadership and Management in Healthcare |
|---|---|
| Unit code | EFIMM0090 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Dr. West |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
N/A |
| School/department | School of Management - Business School |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
Why is this unit important?
The delivery of health and social care faces an ever-increasing multitude of challenges and problems. These organisations (any beyond) are asked to work collaboratively and effectively across a complex landscape. The success of this relies on how leaders and managers can create supportive and collaborative organisational cultures within and across organisational boundaries.
How does this unit fit into your programme of study?
The unit fits the MSc Healthcare Management Programme’s goal of equipping graduates and professionals interested in pursuing a career in management with an in-depth understanding of how to successfully lead and manage health and social care organisations. This unit complements other core Programme units on digital health, patient safety, and quality improvement by providing students with a deep knowledge and understanding of how leadership and management help to deliver effective outcomes for health and social care organisations, both within and across organisational boundaries.
An overview of content
The unit explores the issues and challenges related to the leadership and management of healthcare organisations by focusing on a wide range of theory and research that has addressed this topic. It will offer insights into the theory that has informed change in healthcare systems and the historical context including changes in management and governance arrangements of healthcare organisations. The unit will also review the evidence to support different leadership framework and models. In particular, it will focus on leadership for healthcare professionals, looking at what the evidence base suggests in relation to its relationship with performance and how it can be supported and strengthened through ad hoc strategies and policies.
How will students, personally, be different as a result of the unit
At the end of this unit, you will have a critical understanding of leadership and management in health and social care, including different theoretical approaches, as well as evidenced based practice. They will have a critical understanding of the main features and characteristics of healthcare organisations and the nature of the environmental context where they operate; the history of leadership and management reforms in healthcare services with a specific focus on the National Health Services; the research evidence on the influence and consequences of healthcare management reforms; the antecedents of the effective development of leadership for healthcare professionals and the consequences, including risks and benefits, of a greater alignment between clinical and management priorities.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
The unit will be taught through a mixture of self-guided study materials, real time lectures and group work, web-based tutorials and discussions, case study work, readings, and activities. Some sessions may require some preparatory readings and activities. The use of the Blackboard online learning environment will be actively pursued to develop your understanding and engagement with the unit content.
Tasks which help you learn and prepare you for summative tasks (formative):
You are required to actively participate and contribute to online discussion forums (including during synchronous sessions). The formative assessment is aimed at allowing you to gauge and evaluate levels of understanding, progress and development. You will be required to engage with a leadership and/or management issue and related challenges in the healthcare context and will use the relevant academic and practitioner-focused literatures to analyse and summarise the relevant issue and related challenges.
Tasks which count towards your unit mark (summative):
The unit is assessed by means of a 4000-word written individual essay (100%) based on a topic defined by the unit director and related to the teaching content. Students will be assessed on their knowledge and understanding of leadership and/or management models and theoretical frameworks and their implications for practice-oriented organisational issues and environmental challenges. The assessment covers ILOs 1 – 5.
When assessment does not go to plan
When a student fails the unit and is eligible to resubmit, a revised version of the original failed components will be reassessed on a like-for-like basis.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. EFIMM0090).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The assessment methods listed in this unit specification are designed to enable students to demonstrate the named learning outcomes (LOs). Where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, schools will make reasonable adjustments to support a student to demonstrate the LO by an alternative method or with additional resources.
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
