HHSM20004 - Organisational Culture in Health Care Settings

General Information

Unit Synopsis

The organisational culture of a health setting not only impacts on the people who are employed in this setting, but also on the health outcomes in the broader community. This unit will explore the many facets that contribute to a positive organisational culture including health management, leadership and systems thinking. You will research organisational culture and apply theories to current health care settings. You will have the opportunity to examine an organisational culture, assess hidden meanings and the dynamics of its culture and then create and evaluate strategies to make this culture more attractive for those who work in it.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Portfolio 60%
2. Presentation and Written Assessment 40%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Term 1 - 2020 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 33.33% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 42.86% response rate.

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Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Evaluate key determinants and indicators of positive and negative organisational cultures in health care settings
  2. Analyse leadership styles and systems thinking and their impact on organisational culture
  3. Appraise a health setting in terms of its organisational culture
  4. Develop strategies to improve organisational culture in a health care setting.
  5. Research and apply theories of organisational culture to a current health care setting.

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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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