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3.00 Credits
Introduces general concepts, models, and theories of strategic planning and develops them in terms of applications in the health services industry. Through participation in an actual strategic planning process, students will gain experience and some expertise in the planning, decision-making, and conduct of strategic planning.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the sources, methods, and mechanisms available for financing public organizations in a dynamic and complex environment. It includes a consideration of the administrative and behavioral as well as the economic dimensions of financing public organizations. The examination identifies and explores the skills which are appropriate for managing contemporary public finance systems. Among the specific topics considered in this course are the following: tax and nontax sources of revenue; intergovernmental fiscal relations; debt management; productivity; rate analysis; cash flow management; and managing fiscal retrenchment.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on defining and measuring the performance of the health care sector, defining and explaining microeconomic concepts, and evaluating various policy initiatives to improve efficiency, equity, and technological progress in health care. Specific topics include description of the health care industry, production of health, measurement of health care price changes, theory of demand for health care, theory of production and cost, measurement of inputs and outputs, cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis, and structure and functioning of markets. In addition, the role of government in a private economy in dealing with market failure is discussed, especially as it relates to the goal of assuring universal access to health care. Does not require any specific preparation in economics or mathematics, although graphical presentation of economic concepts is emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the theory and practice of program evaluation in the health services system. Includes multiple methods and uses of evaluation from the perspectives of managers, health professionals, and health services researchers, with an emphasis on the utilization of evaluation findings in program planning and management in health services. Course learning will be synthesized through a community-based learning experience involving working with a community partner to develop an evaluation framework and methodology for an existing or proposed health program.
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3.00 Credits
Administration and management of human resource systems in public sector and nonprofit organizations. Focus is on the underlying values of human resource management, related public policies, structural patterns, and the functional areas of HRM systems. Specific attention will be directed to the strategic roles of human resource management in day-to-day operations, merit system concepts and practices, position and wage classification systems, methods of securing a qualified labor force, and labor relations. Legal requirements in each of these areas will be examined. Emphasis will be on learning by doing through use of skill-building exercises, simulation and analysis of case materials, review of relevant case law, administrative rule-making, and current literature. This course serves as a foundation for PA 591.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the historical, social and cultural context of voluntarism in America as a way of understanding who volunteers and why, and what difference it makes in the lives of organizations and communities. The course includes skill development in the management and administration of volunteer programs in a nonprofit organizational context, including volunteer program planning, evaluation of volunteer programs, recruitment, training and retention of volunteers.
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3.00 Credits
The history and development of public sector collective bargaining in the United States. Specifically included: the role and importance of public sector collective bargaining law; the diversity of collective bargaining laws; comparison of various state laws with proposed national legislation; an in-depth analysis of Oregon's public sector collective bargaining law; the Oregon Employment Relations Board (ERB)-its structure and operation, the rules of procedure of ERB, major functional areas of ERB-bargaining unit determination, representation and decertification procedures, unfair labor practices, the conduct of elections, the Oregon Mediation Service, impasse procedures and continuing legal issues (mandatory vs. permissive home rule and sovereignty bargaining in good faith). This course is a prerequisite for PA 596 and PA 597.
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1.00 Credits
See department for course description.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with an understanding of the ways in which the "rule of law" influences the theory and practice of governance and public administration. This understanding is developed by comparing rule of law systems with other ways of creating social order and organizing community life; examining the origins of the rule of law within both liberal democratic theory and the American constitutional tradition; exploring the distinctive institutional role that administration plays in the American rule of law system through its participation in administrative rule making and policy implementation; examining the role ambiguity created for career administrators in carrying out their responsibilities within the American rule of law system.
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3.00 Credits
See department for the course description.
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