Ethics, Governance and Risk
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| BUSI4047 | Business | 4 | 10 | Autumn UK |
- Code
- BUSI4047
- School
- Business
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 10
- Semesters
- Autumn UK
Summary
This module engages with contemporary challenges and issues in governance, ethics and risk in complex healthcare systems. The module brings together academic theory drawn from both the study of high-performing healthcare organisations and major organisational crises and disasters, as well as exploring and applying insights and models from other sectors. The issues examined throughout the module reflect current concerns in health policy and practice, with a particular focus on the UK health and care context. The module explores difficult ethical issues, the management of risk and the governance of healthcare in broader historical and social context, and examines both the practical application of, and challenges inherent to, major tools and techniques used in healthcare. The module provides a detailed examination of key concepts of governance and ethics major developments in NHS policy challenges in the governance of risk, safety and resilience and practices and theories of healthcare improvement.
Target Students
Students registered on Executive MBA programmes, or other MBA or PG Dip BA programmes at the MBA Director's discretion
Classes
- One 4-hour lecture
- One 7-hour lecture each week for 4 weeks
32 hours contact time over a one-week intensive block. Please note all non-lectures will be timetabled in the Business School
Assessment
- 70% Coursework 1: Coursework essay (3,000 words)
- 30% Presentation 1: Individual case presentation (15 mins incl Q and A)
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
1. To examine some of the key developments and challenges related to ethics, governance and risk in contemporary health policy.2. To offer an overview of key approaches to ethics, governance and risk in the social science literature.3. To explore the inter-relationships between these sets of issues -governance, ethics, risk- via specific cases and case studies from the health sector in the UK.Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
This module develops a knowledge and understanding of:
- The management of operations
- People - the management and development of people within organisations
- The ability to recognise and address ethical dilemmas, corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues, applying ethical and organisational values to situations and choices
- People - strategic and operational HRM, meeting future organisational requirements, people development, HR systems
- The management of resources
- The management of the supply chain
- Business innovation - creativity, intrapreneurial - and entrepreneurial behaviour and enterprise development, and the management and exploitation of intellectual property
Intellectual skills
This module develops:
- Being able to think critically and be creative: manage the creative processes in self and others; organise thoughts, analyse, synthesise and critically appraise. This includes the capability to identify assumptions, evaluate statements in terms of evidence, detect false logic or reasoning, identify implicit values, define terms adequately and generalise appropriately
- Being able to solve complex problems and make decisions: establish criteria, using appropriate decision-making techniques including identifying, formulating and solving business problems; and the ability to create, identify and evaluate options; the ability to implement and review decisions
- Using information and knowledge effectively in order to abstract meaning from information and to share knowledge, including the use of quantitative skills
Professional practical skills
This module develops:
- Effective performance within team environments and the ability to recognise and utilise individuals' contributions in group processes and to negotiate and persuade or influence others; team selection, delegation, development and management. Leadership and performance management: selecting appropriate leadership style for different situations; setting objectives, motivating, monitoring performance, coaching and mentoring
- The ability to recognise the need for and initiate change and to be able to manage change
Transferable (key) skills
This module develops:
- Effective communication: networking, listening, oral and written communication of complex ideas and arguments, using a range of media, including the preparation of business reports
- High personal effectiveness: critical self-awareness, self-reflection and self-management; time management; conflict resolution, displaying commercial acumen, the ability to continue to learn through reflection on practice and experience
- Soft skills: understanding the needs of others and empathy towards them; sensitivity to diversity in people and in different situations