HLTH 6030 - Leadership of Health Organizations

• Apply theories of organizational behavior and organizational development to collaborate in evaluating and redesigning structure, operations, and processes to optimize effectiveness, efficiency, and quality assurance.
• Demonstrate ability to form, lead, and work in teams that are efficient, focused, and flexible.
• Demonstrate knowledge about how to facilitate a physician governance system and manage physician relationships with theorganization, including buy-in to organizational business practices for non-employee physicians.
• Demonstrate systems thinking (breaking down silos, integrating parts, seeing the big picture, etc.).
• Describe management of resources (e.g., assess resources requirements; conduct risk assessment; assess business value; develop implementation strategies).
• Explain how health services are managed and governed.
• Explain leadership relationship to board of directors and other components of the governing structure and assess governing bylaws, policies, and processes.
• Identify and develop personal leadership traits and predict personal leadership function in relation to a changing and complex health care environment.
• Identify methods to create a participative culture with a shared vision, inspire individual and organizational excellence, foster creativity, manage organizational conflicts, and manage change toward the organization’s strategic goals and for quality.
• Integrate communication plans in leadership (e.g., crisis communication, dispute resolution, role in motivation, visioning, status, change management, etc.) recognizing needs of all constituencies.
• Recommend techniques to create an organizational climate that values and supports diversity, encourages teamwork, facilitates individual motivation, and promotes continuous organizational learning in an environment of mutual trust.