HCM825
The availability of large-scale healthcare data through electronic medical records (EMR), patient portals, social media and mobile healthcare apps offers tremendous opportunity to examine the role of analytics in transforming the business practice of healthcare. This includes a better assessment of cost effectiveness, learning curves in the practice of medicine, and identifying best practices for evidence-based medicine. Analytics in Healthcare will offer an overview of the concepts and methods of business analytics as it relates to healthcare management.
Ethical awareness and sound judgment are essential for individual success and organizational effectiveness. In this course, we will examine the ethical aspects of individual and corporate decision making and provide practical resources for making ethical decisions within the business context.
Learn strategies for dealing with cognitive biases, making unrecognized assumptions, determining causality, navigating pathways in critical reasoning and maximizing reasoning effectiveness. Apply innovation principles for developing and implementing innovative designs, processes and leadership in healthcare.
Identify the human resource management functions all managers perform as you explore human resource activity design, administration and evaluation. You’ll also review needs assessment, program implementation and evaluation, information management and decision support, and international human resource management.
Skills: Leadership, Strategic Thinking, People Management, Collaboration/Coordination, Communication, Decision Making, Innovation/Creativity, Analysis, Adaptability, Coaching, Change Management
Learn how to manage people, group processes, and organizational design. Theories and research are applied to developing managerial skills in motivation and leadership with an understanding of diversity, organizational culture, and structure.
Skills: Leadership, People Management, Collaboration/Coordination, Decision Making, Innovation/Creativity, Culture/Cross-Culture, Global Mindset, Change Management
Perform a supervised analysis of your employing organization, by interviewing the CEO or other visible leader. Then assess the correspondence between the leader’s vision and concepts presented in the program.
*MGT 802 must be completed in the last semester.
Explore how organizations can benefit from differences in ethnicity, age, tenure, education and more. You’ll also discover some of the challenges that may arise and learn techniques to manage conflict.
Skills: Leadership, People Management, Communication, Decision Making, Culture/Cross-Culture, Adaptability, Global Mindset, Change Management, Critical Thinking
