Union College - Kentucky

Master of Healthcare Administration

This course gives attention to the knowledge and skills needed to grow and sustain performance in an organization, whether a full company, department, division, or other strategic business unit within an existing organization by getting the right things done through teams of people. It addresses the common management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.

This course responds to the increasing need for cooperative skills in concurrent design and engineering projects, interdepartmental committees, quality circles, self-managed work teams, and relationship selling. Self-awareness is the foundation of group dynamics. Areas to be covered include: individual differences; personality; emotional intelligence; learning; ethics; decision making; and motivation. Group dynamics is understood to be a pillar of organizational success. Areas covered include: communication; group dynamics; leadership; trust; power; and change. Both experiential and theoretical approaches are used to deepen understanding.

A study of selected contributions in political theory and how they contribute to an analysis of public policy on the role of ethical implications of administrative activity, and provides a theoretical framework within which responsible decisions can be made. It relates the ethical considerations and legal principles to the organization's responsibility to society.