Campus
Birmingham (Edgbaston)
Course overview
This course introduces the field of management to students with various professional and academic backgrounds. Using healthcare organisations as a main focus, students will learn to effectively manage themselves, their teams and organisations by utilising theory and research to understand management and leadership.
This short course provides an introduction to management for students from a range of professional and academic backgrounds. Its aim is to examine the main components of management in a way that is accessible to students with different levels of experience of working in organisations.
Using health care organisations as a focus it explores the key elements of managing self, managing teams and managing organisations to enable students to develop a critical perspective on organisation. It focuses on the use of theory and research to build an understanding of management and leadership in organisations.
Course delivery
On completion you should be able to:
- Discuss broad conceptual approaches to the study of management
- Examine management of self; management of teams; management of the organisation as a framework for the practice of management.
- Analyse critically specific theories of management and leadership and their utility in increasing understanding of organisations
- Examine the rationale for and effectiveness of change strategies utilised in health care organisations.
- Evaluate critically the concept of organisational culture and its applications in managing health care.
- Critique relevant research to inform an analysis of health care organisations.
Course dates
7-11 April
Assessment
One written assignment
Credits
10 credits
Teaching staff
Academics involved in the delivery of this module
Iain Snelling
Associate Professor
Iain Snelling, Senior Fellow, HSMC, University of Birmingham. Areas of work include management and leadership development in the NHS, service evaluation and improvement.
Entry requirements
Degree level entry requirement.
For further information, please contact the programme team on +44 (0)121 414 7577, or at mph@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Fees and scholarships
- £585
Home microcredential fee
Application process
You can choose to study this course as either a microcredential or a non-credit CPD short course.
Why choose a Postgraduate Microcredential short course?
- Microcredentials offer the perfect opportunity to boost your CV without the commitment of a full degree
- Usually taken from existing modules within a Masters, they can be used as standalone credentials with some also counting as academic credits at postgraduate level
- Add a postgraduate level qualification to your CV
- Develop the specialist skills you need for your career goals
- Alumni status with the University of Birmingham
- Learners will have the same access to our student support and campus facilities as our students on full degree programmes.
Please note the deadline for submitting an application:
- Applicants eligible for Home fees are to apply a minimum of 6 weeks before the module start date.
- Applicants eligible for Overseas fees are to apply a minimum of 3 months before the module start date.
Please note that once registered for the microcredential you cannot swap for the non-credit short course version.
Non-credit short course
The microcredential and the non-credit short course follow the same course structure, the difference between them both is with the non-credit short course you do not take the assessment at the end therefore you will not receive credits but will receive a certificate of completion, this certificate cannot be converted to credits.
Please note if you apply for the non-credit short course, you cannot swap to the microcredential version once registered.
Places on the non-credit short course are limited so please enquire before if spaces are available.