Leadership and Organisational Strategy
6 Credits (ECTS)
Leadership and Organisational Strategy
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Module Description
Learners will gain knowledge on Strategy Development and Management in Healthcare and its challenges as well as examine the relevant management processes, phases and benefits.
Learners will also familiarise themselves with governance, ethics and social responsibility in Healthcare, critically analyse external and internal organisational forces, as well as factors involved in designing, developing and implementing strategy.
Furthermore, learners will explore various leadership theories and styles tailored to support organizational development initiatives, preparing them to lead and inspire teams towards achieving strategic objectives in healthcare settings.
Entry Requirements
Candidates who apply for this course must possess one of the following:
- a Level 6 degree in a related field;
OR
- a Level 5 diploma or higher diploma and 5 years’ work experience in a supervisory or managerial role.
Preference is given to applicants having a Level 6 degree in a discipline related to the healthcare industry and a minimum of 3 years’ work experience in management within the sector.
Target Audience
The programme is mainly targeted at:
- Nurses and Midwives;
- Nursing Managers;
- Ward Managers;
- Clinic /Department Managers;
- Physiotherapists;
- Social Workers;
- Doctors;
- Professionals allied to medicine, such as paramedics;
- Staff within the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries;
- General Managers without clinical qualifications.
Career Paths
The programme aims to prepare you for senior posts such as
- Chief Executive Officer
- Managing Director
- Head of Department of any healthcare entity such as a hospital, clinic or ward, amongst others.
How you’ll be assessed
The course comprises:
- Evening classes for part-time courses.
- Classes held throughout the day for full-time courses.
- Guided learning, presentations, comprising synchronous online discussions, tutorials and/or videos.
- Self-study hours comprising research, reading and assignment work.
Assessment
Assessment is carried out via two mandatory components:
- Modular Assessment
- Dissertation Assessment
The programme includes different forms of assessment which allow for and promote students’ critical engagement. The formative and summative assessment tasks may include an in-class assignment and/or a home-based written assignment using diverse assessment tools which may take the form of online and in-class discussions, examinations, case studies, reports, proposals, essays, and presentations, etc., as applicable to the diverse modules.
Learning Outcomes
Competences:
At the end of the module/unit the learner will have acquired the responsibility and autonomy to:
- Critically analyse and communicate the opportunities to achieve strategic leadership development both with specialists and non-specialists.
- Manage debate and dialogue both with specialists and non-specialists to critically analyse and evaluate the steps the leadership can take to develop organisational strategy.
- Design a personal development plan to achieve strategic leadership development.
- Devise an implementation process for the development plan.
- Critically assess the impact of strategic leadership development on the success of organisational strategy.
Knowledge:
At the end of the module/unit the learner will have been exposed to the following:
- Critically analyse Strategic Management processes, phases, benefits and barriers with a particular focus on Healthcare systems.
- Critically analyse Strategic Management challenges in Healthcare in the context of 5Ps of competitive advantage.
- Critically analyse Corporate Governance, Ethics and Social Responsibility in Healthcare.
- Critically analyse the concept of managers as effective leaders in relation to leadership.
- Critically analyse the concept of leaders as effective managers in context of strategic management theory.
- Critically evaluate the balance needed between the demands of strategic management and leadership.
- Recognise and evaluate leadership qualities that support organisational mission and values in own healthcare organisational settings.
Skills:
At the end of the module/unit the learner will have acquired the following skills:
- Critically analyse the importance of using Star Model to healthcare strategic planning and the 5 Ps of competitive advantage to a Healthcare scenario.
- Apply the most suitable strategy management processes in context of organisational development and management theory.
- Critically evaluate the effectiveness of strategic leadership development in achieving advancement of professional leadership practices in organisations.
- Establish a process for developing and formulating strategy based on the organisational development strategyby ritically analysing the political, social, ethical and operational needs for common strategy in healthcare organisations.
- Critically evaluate how strategic intelligence is used in the development and formulation of strategy.
- Explicate how strategy is influenced by the reality of factors including political, global, public interest, media impact, and social, cultural and religious in the modern context.
Module-Specific Digital Skills and Competences:
The learner will be able to:
- Navigate through the online learning platform to find assignments, discussion boards, literature, tutorials etc.