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Work Community and Work Unit Management (5 cr)

Code: TH00CA56-3001

General information


Enrollment

01.12.2022 - 08.01.2023

Timing

16.01.2023 - 19.03.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Health and Well-being

Campus

Location-independent

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

40 - 65

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Social Services

Teachers

  • Kari Salonen
  • Ilkka Uusitalo

Groups

  • PSOSTK22
  • PSOSTS22
  • PSOSS22EN
  • PSOSK22V
  • PSOSS22V

Objective

• you are familiar with and know how to apply current management trends in supervisory work
• you are familiar with and know how to apply work community management methods in your work
• you know how to work as a first-line manager of a work community in accordance with the organisation’s strategic and operative objectives
• you have self-management skills and are able to evaluate your management skills and profile from the perspectives of different client groups, plans, finances, results and welfare effects
• you know how to develop your management communication skills and strategically plan and manage work community communications

Content

• new trends of first-line management in different welfare services in the 2020s
• management by objectives, talent management and management methods
• the development of work unit operations and quality through supervisory work
• self-knowledge and evaluating yourself as a manager
• management communications trends and influencer communications
• digital organisational communication and remote management

Evaluation scale

H-5