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This course equips HCM students with theoretical perspectives and practical knowledge on strategy and strategic financial management in healthcare organizations. Students will develop an understanding of how strategic decisions translate into financial consequences, how financial information supports strategic decision-making, and how healthcare organizations justify and monitor their financial performance. Rather than training financial specialists, the course prepares future healthcare managers to engage confidently and meaningfully with accountants, controllers, and other financial professionals, enabling them to critically evaluate the financial dimensions of strategic choices and participate effectively in strategic decision-making.
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Employees are of crucial importance for the delivery of health care and the performance of health care organisations. Therefore, the management of health care organisations involves managing people. This course aims to provide insights in the behaviour of individuals and groups in organisations and the effects on performance and health care delivery. The first part of the course focusses on the management of employees using insights from Human Resource Management and leadership theories. Further, dilemmas and tensions related to leadership, performance management, teamwork, patient-centeredness, professionals, and well-being within healthcare organizations will be discussed.
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Quality and safety are very much on the agenda of health care governance throughout the world. In this course we actively engage students to explore the theoretical backgrounds to, as well as the major themes of, quality and safety governance. In general, the course takes the position that quality and safety in health care needs continuous work. We emphasize the need for both ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to quality and safety, and place particular stress on theories of the 'middle' - the level where the work of management and leadership usually resides. The course explores six challenges that come from this 'mangle of the middle'. These challenges are said to face each quality and safety improvement effort, and can be structural, political, cultural, technological, emotional and educational.
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