Workplace Management in Care of Older People (5 ECTS)

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Manage workplace personnel
- Apply the principles of human resource management that support mental health and wellbeing at work
- Promote staff productivity and job satisfaction in an organisation
- Anticipate the changes in work, working environments and working patterns
- Support the self-management skills of personnel

Content

- Management of workplace staff
- Workplace wellbeing, mental wellbeing, job satisfaction and staff productivity
- Change in work and work environments
- Self-management and sharing of tacit knowledge

Teaching methods

Distance learning
Reflective practice
Face-to-face teaching
Participatory methods

Learning materials and recommended literature

To be announced

Internship and working life connections

N/A

Exam dates and retake possibilities

N/A

International connections

N/A

Student workload

5 ect= 135 hours

Content scheduling

N/A

Further information for students

Lähtötaso vaatimus:
opiskelu on YAMK tasoista, opiskelijalle tulee olla riittävät valmiudet työyhteisöjen johtamisen perusteista ja työelämäkokemusta.

Assessment methods and criteria

Total 100
Pre-assignment and Attendance requirement 10
Test 60
Learning assignments 30

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student knows how to:
- Define and implement the principles of workplace management
- Define and explain the importance and support of workplace wellbeing and mental wellbeing to job satisfaction and staff productivity
- Identify and describe the significance of change in work patterns and work environments on workplace management and wellbeing
- 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 student knows how to:
- Analyse and comprehensively apply the principles of workplace management
- Analyse the importance of workplace wellbeing and mental wellbeing and apply different kinds of practices to promote 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 student knows how to:
- Critically evaluate and purposefully develop the principles of workplace management
- Critically evaluate the realisation of workplace wellbeing and mental wellbeing and develop different kinds of practices to promote job satisfaction and staff productivity
- Critically evaluate the changes in work patterns and work environments and create innovative solutions for workplace management and wellbeing based on the observations and data
- 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 student knows how to:
- Define and implement the principles of workplace management
- Define and explain the importance and support of workplace wellbeing and mental wellbeing to job satisfaction and staff productivity
- Identify and describe the significance of change in work patterns and work environments on workplace management and wellbeing
- Identify and describe their own actions and management capacity based on the ethical principles of care of older people and equality