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Managing & Organising in Healthcare - MAN00170M

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  • Department: The York Management School
  • Credit value: 15 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2026-27
    • See module specification for other years: 2025-26

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Online Teaching Period 4 2026-27

Module aims

The module aims to develop student’s critical and practical understanding of the challenges of organising, managing and leading change in healthcare as a distinctive sector or area of activity

Module learning outcomes

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  1. Critically understand the distinctive nature of healthcare organisations and their implications for management and governance practice.

  2. Assess the wider policy context of attempts to reform and restructure healthcare organisations internationally, in terms of key drivers for change.

  3. Develop research-informed competencies for addressing the challenge of how to strengthen leadership capacity in healthcare organisations.

  4. Apply tools and frameworks for evaluating and implementing evidence based management innovations in healthcare organisations.

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Assignment - York Online Programmes 100.0

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Assignment - York Online Programmes 100.0

Module feedback

Feedback will be provided in accordance with the York Online Programme Handbook.

Indicative reading

  1. Walshe, K. and Smith, J. (2016) Healthcare Management (3rd edition)

  2. Ferlie, E., Montgomery, K. and Pederson, A.R. (2016) The Oxford Handbook of Healthcare Management, OUP.

  3. Gopee, N. and Galloway, J. (2017) Leadership and Management in Healthcare, Sage (3rd edition)

  4. Mintzberg, H. (2017) Managing the Myths of Healthcare, Berrett-Koehler Publishers


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