79527 - the Economics of Human Resource Management in Healthcare Organization

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Economics and Management (cod. 8880)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Economic Policy (cod. 8420)

Learning outcomes

This course deals with important aspects of the employment relationship within healthcare organizations, such as worker motivation and incentives, compensation schemes, selection of managers and employees, teamwork and the organization of work more generally. The first part of the course sets the stage by providing the theoretical background, and by presenting selected empirical evidence. The second part focuses on special topics, case studies, and organizational design pertaining to the management of human resources (personnel, in particular) in healthcare organizations.

Course contents

The inflow of skills: Recruitment

Increasing workers' skills: Training

Using workers' skills: Job Design

Encouraging the use of skills: Incentives

The outflow of skills: Turnover

Applications to Healthcare Organizations

Readings/Bibliography

Textbook: Personnel Economics in Practice, 3rd Edition by Edward Lazear and Michael Gibbs

Teaching methods

Lectures and Class Project

Assessment methods

Written exam + Class Project

Teaching tools

Talk, Slides, Discussions

Links to further information

https://sites.google.com/site/giuliozanella/teaching

Office hours

See the website of Giulio Zanella