About human resources management details

1. Health Policy and Management
For 2nd
Year Midwifery Students
Module Code SPHM-3132
ECTS: 4
By: Nigusu Worku (MPH)
Email: nigusuworku29@gmail.com
University of Gondar
College of Medicine and Health Science
Department of Health systems and Policy
March, 2020
Gondar, Ethiopia
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2. Course Objectives
By the end of this course you should be able to:
• Define management and explain the managerial
principles, functions, roles and skills needed to
manage effectively in the health sector
• Discuss the impact of external environment factors on
management.
• Define planning , identify the types and design for
proper health plans.
• Identify the key elements of organizing and
organizational structure
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3. Course Objectives…
• Understand Leading (Leadership), distinguish d/nt
theories of leadership, Styles of leadership and
differences b/n Leadership vs mgt
• Understand organizational control from a strategic
perspective ; identify the types of control and
component of common to all control system
• Describe Resources management (HR, Finance, time,…)
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4. Course outline
Unit 1: Overview of management
• Organization and the need of management
• Definition of management
• Importance of management
• Managerial functions , roles, skills and principles
Unit 2: Planning
• Definition of Planning
• The essential of planning
• The process of planning
• Strategic and other types of planning
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5. Course Outline…
Unit 3: Organizing and Organizations
• The process of organizing
• Organizational structures
• Organizational effectiveness
Unit 4: Leading (Leadership)
• Approaches to leadership
• Styles of leadership
• Types of leadership
• Leadership vs mgt
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6. Course Outline…
Unit 5: Controlling and Decision Making
– Fundamentals of organizational control ,forms and process
– Monitoring and evaluation
– Indicators
– Describe the relationship b/n decision making and other
functions of mgt
– Describe categories of decisions
– Decision making steps
– Identify factors influencing problem solving & decision
making
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7. Course Outline…
Unit 6 : Governance
 Definition of Governance
 Characteristics of good governance
 Governance Vs Governing body
 Good governance for health system
Unit 7: Resource Management
 Human Resource Management
 Financial Management
 Time Management
 Logistics Management
 HMIS
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8. Course Outline…
Unity 8: What health service
 Health service coverage
 Stages of health service coverage
 Factor affecting health service coverage
Unit 9: Health System & Health Policy
 Understand key Health system and health-system building blocks
and their interactions
 Describe the health policy principles, strategies and priorities in
Ethiopia
 Discuss on HSDP and Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP)
 Describe PHC
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9. References
1. Management Sciences for Health. 2010. Health Systems in Action: an eHandbook for Leaders
and Managers. Cambridge, MA: MSH.
2. Allen, L. (1958) Management and Organization, Auckland: McGraw-Hill.
3. Ercoline, M. (2012) ‘New management principles for a new age’, 30 January, online at
http://www.managementexchange.com/blog/new-management-principles-new-age (accessed
28 October 2013).
4. Fayol, H. (1949) General and Industrial Management, London: Pitman.
5. Labarre, P. (2012) ‘New management principles for a new age’, 25 January, online at
http://www.managementexchange.com/blog/new-management-principles-new-age (accessed
28 October 2013).
6. Mintzberg, H. (1973) The Nature of Managerial Work, New York: Harper & Row.
7. Stooner, Gilbert and Freeman. Management, 6th edition
8. Tosii, H. and Carroll, S. (1982) Management, 2nd edn, New York: Wiley
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10. Thank
you !!
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