Course Overview

Rapidly changing global environments, health care policy and competitive forces in an increasingly boundaryless health care delivery system demand transformative and visionary leaders. This course is designed to provide current and future health care executives with the intellectual frameworks, contemporary theory and applications to respond effectively to these dynamic changes. Building on concepts from psychology, sociology and the behavioral sciences, this course will prepare students to develop the capacity to develop, lead and transform health care organizations and the institutional networks that embody the health care delivery system. Contemporary theory suggests that the development of highly effective, transformative leaders emerges from a framework that combines self assessment and reflection embedded in the constructs of emotional intelligence, with theories and methods designed to provide the participants the latest thoughts associated with leading, individuals, teams, organizations and interorganizational networks.

Learning Achievement

To identify, assess and evaluate the intrapersonal dimensions associated with Emotional Intelligence (EQ) To analyze and evaluate your strategies for leading individuals, groups and organizations To discover, assess and develop a personal philosophy of leadership that will enable you to lead effectively in an increasingly diversity and highly dynamic globalized world To increase your knowledge of the scholarly literature and contemporary thought for leading, developing and empowering individuals To increase your effectiveness in the design and transformation of organizations and interorganizational networks To internalize the values and responsibilities that are necessary to ensure the delivery of high quality, patient focused health care in a community and global health care perspective To understand the changing roles of leadership and personal and professional responsibilities in a complex, globalized organizational and dynamically changing social context To gain insights into your career development

Competence

Course prerequisites

Satisfactory performance in this class requires that you: Read all materials assigned for each class session prior to the class meeting days listed on the syllabus Effectively participate in the seminar discussions and class activities Participate as a member of a team briefing the class on the key points discussed in the assigned readings Develop and maintain a journal that summarizes the key insights you gained from each class session Complete and score all assigned self assessment inventories prior to the class meeting Develop a final paper on "The Best Practices for Effectively Leading Health Care Organizations

Grading Philosophy

Course schedule

Course type

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Robert C. Myrtle

Other information

(College of Public Health) Institute of Health Policy and Management
*Registration eligibility: graduate students.

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