HAD5773H

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This seminar introduces the dominant theories used by health services researchers to study phenomena relating to organizational behavior in health services organizations and systems. Theories reviewed in this course are applicable to micro-, meso-, or macro-levels of analysis.

Seminar topics will include organization theory; influence of organizational culture on work behaviour; organizational learning and inter-organizational knowledge transfer; decision making in complex contexts; green organizational culture; leadership and followership; diversity and inclusion in workplaces; team effectiveness; behaviour change & sustaining behaviour change; and relationship between incentives and work motivation. The last session is allocated to student presentations, where students present a research idea and related research question(s) that are motivated using theory reviewed in the course.

1. Conversance with dominant theories of organizational behaviour and their relevance to the study of issues in health services organizations;
2. Ability to critically analyze a research article that uses as its theoretical framework one of the theories discussed in seminar;
3. Ability to develop a viable research question(s) that is motivated and explored using one or more of the theories discussed in seminar