Managing Complex Adaptive Healthcare Organisations
PostgraduateTAS-BAA7572025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025
- Price from
- $3,085
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Managing Complex Adaptive Healthcare Organisations
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Develop knowledge of complex adaptive system theories and implementation sciences.
- Evaluate how individual, teams and organisations approach service improvement and change.
- Critique organisational, team and individual actions that promote or detract from resilience and reliability.
- Distinguish complexity and implementation sciences and their application to healthcare organisations.
- Conceptualise and judge the effectiveness of human factors theory to manage organisations.
- Module 1: Theories and Strategies for Understanding Healthcare Organisations
- Module 2: Complexity and Implementation Sciences
- Module 3: Organisational Resilience and Healthcare Reliability
- Module 4: Human Factors for Improving Healthcare Organisations
This subject investigates theories and strategies for managing and improving complex adaptive healthcare organisations. Models of healthcare organisations will be introduced to analyse their structure, functions, processes and limitations. Complex adaptive systems thinking will be applied to healthcare organisations to understand their actions and points of resistance. Organisational theory will be used to analyse and interpret opportunities and constraints for service delivery. Mechanisms for achieving change through using a range of theories will be reviewed, including complexity and implementation sciences, organisational resilience, reliability and human factors. Students will have opportunities to hear from experts across Australia and participate in industry case studies and analysis.
[Special Note: this subject is offered in odd-numbered years only.]
Students are required to be familiar with all module content by the end of week 10, as assignments will draw on all modules.
- Essay (30%)
- Presentation (30%)
- Proposal (40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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