Mar 29, 2024  
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MHA 6055 - Capstone: Strategic Management and Leadership for Healthcare


In the capstone course, students apply and demonstrate knowledge, theories, principles, methods, skills, competencies, values, and perspectives developed throughout the MHA curriculum to resolve “real” health administration challenges. The focus of this course is on the creation of a Capstone Project that’s designed to integrate the components of healthcare organizational strategy development and execution. The course will cover the following content areas: Techniques for determining strategies for unique services; integration of strategy, structure, and administrative systems; how to lead organizational challenges (e.g., organization change, building strong culture, developing effective teams, resolving conflicts, implementing effective motivational systems, and nurturing a learning organization); self-development; organizational design and governance; power, politics and conflict; human resource processes; and organizational change and innovation; micro and macro organizational behavior theories; processes of communication, value analysis, problem solving and decision making are explored at an individual, team and organizational level; models of leadership. The final capstone project will require students to: Integrate the specialized disciplines and knowledge learned from previous MHA courses through the use of case analyses and action research. Students are challenged to formulate strategies that address complex problems and situations faced by managers of health services organizations. Students will utilize industry case studies to research and examine issues associated with strategic change and the alignment of health services organizations within their environment. Students will present solutions to these issues to a board of higher education faculty and administration, healthcare executives and experts from the community, who will challenge students to formulate and inform strategies and business plans to address problems faced today in the world of health care delivery” . “Provides students with the opportunity to analyze and observe executive role models and to assess and develop their own management philosophies” . “This course requires students to conduct individual integrative projects that address and analyze topics important both to the student and the preceptor through demonstration of program-defined competencies”

3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits



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