Health Care Management

Health Care Management in Long-term facilities

Fieldwork projects

Fieldwork projects are planned to involve students in gaining experience in their chosen field and are selected with reference to the individual student’s interests and needs. Fieldwork placement is not limited to Massachusetts facilities and may take place at facilities such as hospitals, long-term health care organizations, mental health clinics, continuing care retirement communities, health insurance organizations, ambulatory care facilities, day care facilities for the elderly, nursing homes, acute care rehabilitation centers, hospices, physician group practices, walk-in medical facilities, home health organizations, regulatory agencies, and other health care or health care-related organizations.

Health selectives

• AEXS 677 - Stress Management Credits: 3
• HLTH 560 - Health-Related Aspects of Aging Credits: 3
• HLTH 670 - Gender and Health Credits: 3
• MSSW 655 - Proposal Writing and Grant Acquisition Credits: 2

Management selectives

• BUSM 605 - Managerial Supervision Credits: 3
• BUSM 618 - Advertising Credits: 3
• BUSM 630 - Management in Long-Term Healthcare Organizations Credits: 3
• BUSM 640 - Quantitative Methods Credits: 3
• BUSM 645 - Consumer Behavior Credits: 3
• HPER 679 - Personnel and Human Resource Management Credits: 3

Management Special Topics Courses

Choose three from the following one-credit courses.  These represent topics of current interest offered on a variable basis.  The following are among the one credit offerings included as choices:

• Home Health Care
• Health Insurance
• Death and Dying
• Issues Related to Managing a Continuing Care Retirement Community
• Occupational Medicine
• Current Issues in Long-Term Health Care
• Managing an HMO
• Negotiation Skills
• Managed Care
• Multihospital Systems and Academic Medical Centers
• Health Policy
• Alternative Health Care Delivery Systems
• Facilities Planning
• Governance and Board Effectiveness
• Professional Skill Development
• National Health Reform Alternatives

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

This program is offered as a concentration of the Psychology and Counseling program.  Students enrolled in this program will be considered psychology majors.

This is a multifaceted program offered in cooperation with the Management Department.  Combining course work from management, counseling, organizational psychology, and computer science with a fieldwork placement in business, industry, government, or not-for-profit institutions, students develop competencies in the application of both business and psychological principles and practices. Focusing mainly on organizational settings, Industrial/Organizational (I/O) psychology applies the science of psychology to the solution of a wide array of human and organizational problems ranging from employee selection to team building and organizational development.  Graduates find career opportunities in human resources management, training and development, consumer research, workplace health and safety, recruitment and employee counseling, organizational development, management consulting, and employee relations.

The I/O Psychology program provides students with the opportunity to learn how to:

• Design, conduct, and evaluate organizational research projects.
• Translate psychological information into non-technical terms.
• Design, implement, and evaluate training programs.
• Assess the impact of motivation, job stress, leadership and other constructs of work behavior.
• Build effective work groups through job analysis, group development and worker participation.
• Develop and implement performance appraisal and compensation/ benefits systems.
• Analyze and design organizational change strategies.
• Effectively develop employee selection and job placement criteria.
• Help individual employees develop to their full potential.
• Design healthy and safe work environments.
• Mediate employee and labor disputes.