MS900-20 Leadership and Management in Healthcare
Introductory description
This module offers a flexible method of learning to meet the educational and development needs of students who are involved in leading, with one or more layer of hierarchy below them.
The module assumes students are working in a healthcare setting, either as clinical professionals or executive healthcare administrators and will explore opportunities to collaborate with interprofessional peers, in exploring concepts of leadership and management in healthcare.
Module aims
The aim of this module is to enable students to begin to develop their understanding of the behaviour and motivation of staff in healthcare organisations. It is intended to be the introductory module to the Masters in Healthcare Leadership and provides the foundations on which other modules build.
Students will:
- Gain the necessary knowledge and skills to lead effectively, working directly with their first reporting line, and influencing the layer or layers below their direct reports for the outcomes the organisation needs.
- Acquire the ability to design, plan and manage interventions both explicit and implicit, to influence and change the behaviour of colleagues.
Outline syllabus
This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.
The outline syllabus gives an indication of the sort of topics that will be covered in the module.
- Understanding leadership and management
- How culture and behaviour emerge and interplay.
- Complex adaptive systems thinking.
- The role of a leader versus leadership.
- Understanding basic organisational structures (Minztberg).
- Building your capacity in emotional intelligence.
- Key leadership theories (Conger & Pearce, Heifetz and Linksy, Hersey and Blanchard, Blake and Mouton, Goleman, Collins).
- Seeking feedback on your leadership style.
- Understanding motivation
- Key motivation theories (Maszlow, Herzberg, Amabile and Kramer).
- Reducing demotivators in the working environment.
- Creating purpose statements for large groups.
- Establishing the limits of autonomy and measuring progress.
- Influencing skills
- Power vs Influence vs Manipulation.
- Key influencing theories (French and Raven, Kipnis).
- Identifying and developing your bases of power.
- Identifying the most effective influencing strategy for a situation.
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Benefits of a culture of open feedback.
- Models of feedback (DESC, SBI, What/why/what).
- Seeking and receiving feedback effectively.
- Using self-assessment and 360 feedback as a tool to build culture.
5 Assignment guidance tutorials & self-directed learning
Learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
- 1. Demonstrate an understanding of key theories of how behaviour and culture develop with particular reference to healthcare settings.
- 2. Critically appraise the role and professional values of the leader in a healthcare setting, as distinct from and intersecting with those of a manager.
- 3. Critique key theories of leadership and influencing with a particular reference to complex adaptive systems.
- 4. Evaluate the key theories of motivation with a particular reference to healthcare settings.
- 5. Demonstrate the ability to assess and give feedback to colleagues.
Interdisciplinary
Healthcare Leadership is usually considered to be a single discipline. However, this module / course draws on the expertise from 3 distinct areas within the University (Medical School, Business School and Manufacturing Group). It is therefore certainly inter-departmental, and many will consider it to be interdisciplinary.
International
The course will recruit from (and be delivered in) multiple territories, and the content will be tailored to the students' own territories.
Subject specific skills
Understanding of, and ability to apply, influencing skills.
Understanding of organisation, motivation and coordinating skills.
Transferable skills
Transferable skills
Improvement of a range of transferable skills, including:
- Written communication
- Organisation & Time management
- Independence & Initiative
- Adaptability & Flexibility
- Teamwork
Study time
| Type | Required |
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| Online learning (scheduled sessions) | 30 sessions of 1 hour (19%) |
| Online learning (independent) | 130 sessions of 1 hour (81%) |
| Total | 160 hours |
Private study description
No private study requirements defined for this module.
Costs
No further costs have been identified for this module.
You do not need to pass all assessment components to pass the module.
Assessment group A1
| Weighting | Study time | Eligible for self-certification | |
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Assessment component |
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| Leadership and Management of People | 70% | 30 hours | Yes (extension) |
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A 2,000-word critical review of the literature on leadership, culture, motivation and feedback and its application within the student's professional environment. |
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Reassessment component is the same |
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Assessment component |
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| Leadership and Management - personal action plan | 30% | 10 hours | Yes (extension) |
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Completion of a self-assessment tool and creation of a personal action plan based on identified areas of improvement. |
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Reassessment component is the same |
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Feedback on assessment
Submissions will be marked and moderated using a standardised rubric based on the following assessment criteria:
- analysis
- application
- communication
- evaluation
- knowledge
- understanding
Feedback, including marks, will be given electronically to students.
A bespoke rubric will be developed for the Reflective Piece.
This will be based on similar rubrics for reviewing reflective submissions within WMS, and will be approved by the WMS Course Director and External Examiner before it is adopted for the course.
The pass mark is 50% overall.
It is not necessary to pass each component of the module independently.
We will apply a compensatory grading approach that will enable students to carry a failed component, as long as their aggregated mark is at least 50%.
There is currently no information about the courses for which this module is core or optional.