Human Resource Management in Public Health

Graduate Prerequisites: (SPHPH719 & SPHPH720) or consent of instructor. - This course provides students with a skills-based orientation to human resource and change management, especially in a public health or human services setting. Core leadership and management activities such as staff training and development, employee relations, negotiations, and managing individual and group-level change are explored via readings, cases, podcasts/media, and experiential activities. Using case examples and experiential hands-on activities that illustrate basic principles, students develop strategies to improve human resource and change management practices, while developing an awareness of the unique aspects of the health care workforce.