Managing Work CommunityLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

Upon completion of the course, the students know how to:
- Manage work community and its personnel
- Apply the principles of human resource management that support wellbeing at work
- Advance the profitability of the organization and take job satisfaction into consideration
- Anticipate and support the changes in working environments and working patterns
- Support the self-direction and self-management skills of the personnel

Content

- Managing the staff
- Wellbeing at work, job satisfaction and profitability of work
- Change in work and work environments
- Self-managing employees

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The students know how to:
- Define and implement the principles of the work community and workplace management
- Define and explain the importance and support of workplace wellbeing and staff productivity
- Identify and describe the significance of change in work patterns and work environments on workplace management and wellbeing and supporting the self-management of the staff
- Identify and describe their own actions and management capacity based on the ethical principles of care of older people and equality

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The students know how to:
- Analyse and comprehensively apply the principles of workplace and staff management
- Analyse the meaning of workplace wellbeing and apply different kinds of methods to advance job satisfaction and staff productivity
- Analyse the significance of change in work patterns and work environments and create solutions for workplace management and workplace wellbeing based on the observations and data
- Analyse their own practice based on the ethical principles of care of older people and equality and draw conclusions about their own management capacity

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The students know how to:
- Critically and in a goal oriented manner evaluate and develop the principles of workplace and employee management
- Critically evaluate the meaning of workplace wellbeing and further develop practices increasing job satisfaction and staff productivity
- Critically evaluate the changes in work patterns and work environments and create innovative solutions for workplace and staff management and supporting wellbeing and employees
- Critically evaluate their own practice based on the ethical principles of care of older people and equality and develop their own management capacity

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The students know how to:
- Define and implement the principles of workplace and staff management
- Define and explain the importance and support of workplace wellbeing to job satisfaction and staff productivity
- Identify and describe the significance of change in work patterns and work environments on workplace and staff and supporting the self-management of employees
- Identify and describe their own actions and management capacity based on the ethical principles of care of older people and equality