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Integrate the styles and attributes of effective health industry leaders
Examine the hierarchy of strategic and tactical perspectives in the context of health care organisations
Analyse fundamental theories of health leadership and management: trait, skill, style and situational approaches to management
Apply knowledge and practice to reflect about themselves as potential managers: Given who I am, and can become, what kind of manager am I likely to be? What can and should I do to prepare myself for a job as a manager – and at what management level(s)?
Demonstrate high‐level analytic skills to meet the demands of complex health industry challenges, and develop appropriate knowledge and skills for leadership and management.
Enhance abilities in outlining the need for different forms of team work activities and understand the relationship between structure and processes
Exhibit effective communication skills to specialist and non‐specialist audiences, and in group co-operation, collaboration and reflection
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The context of health care continues to evolve, with changes most marked in the following areas: demographic transition, epidemiologic transition, concepts of health and disease, models of health care, health technology, health care funding, community expectations about health services, optimal mix of health professionals, and settings for health care provision. This unit provides participants with information on the implications of key challenges for strategic health leadership and management, and the skills to effectively anticipate and manage structural changes in health industries. The unit distinguishes between Management, described as the production of acceptable results within known constraints and conditions; and Leadership, described as harnessing individual and organisational capacity, collaboration and character to facilitate strategic and productive changes within health organisations.