Leadership and Management in the Community

Our module will provide an innovative exploration of leadership and management in healthcare, examining the impact on organisations, including wider considerations in the external environment.

The module combines academic rigour with practical applications, to create dynamic, forward-thinking practitioners who will excel in their field.

You will learn to assess and analyse the roles that leaders and managers play in a range of organisational contexts and apply principles and techniques of leadership and management. You will adopt a multi-perspective framework for developing and evaluating leadership and management processes.

The main topics of study are as follows;

• Fundamentals of leadership and its defining characteristics. Differences between leadership and management.
• The concepts of leadership and management in an organisational, social, environmental and multicultural context and ethical leadership.
• Organisational culture and dynamics
• Performance management