Details for MAN532 Healthcare Staffing and Stakeholder Management

Behind every great health service is a sustainable, capable workforce. Healthcare Staffing and Stakeholder Management helps you tackle the workforce challenges facing Australian healthcare, from planning and staffing models to recruitment, retention and productivity. You’ll learn to map and engage stakeholders, manage competing interests, and lead healthcare teams with clinical governance and workforce risk in view. You’ll finish ready to design staffing and stakeholder strategies that support both your people and your organisation’s goals.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: MAN532
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

Nil

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Critically analyse workforce challenges facing Australian healthcare organisations.
2. Design evidence-based staffing and workforce planning strategies that align with organisational objectives.
3. Critically evaluate workforce productivity, capability development, and workforce sustainability using contemporary healthcare management frameworks.
4. Extrapolate stakeholder mapping and engagement methodologies to complex healthcare environments.
5. Design leadership and communication strategies to manage competing stakeholder interests.

Subject Content

1. Australian healthcare workforce landscape
2. Strategic workforce planning
3. Recruitment, retention, and talent management
4. Workforce productivity and staffing models
5. Leadership in healthcare teams
6. Clinical governance and workforce risk
7. Stakeholder theory in healthcare
8. Stakeholder engagement and communication
9. Indigenous and international workforce considerations
10. Workforce sustainability and future of work
11. Contemporary issues in healthcare staffing and/or stakeholder management

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to face on site 
• E-learning (online) 
• Intensive (provide details) 

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

1. Case Analysis (20%)
2. Stakeholder Mapping & Engagement Plan (25%)
3. Healthcare Consulting Project (25%)
4. Executive Strategy Report (30%)

Prescribed Text

Shanks, N. H., Buchbinder, S. B., & Rogers, R. (2025). Introduction to health care management. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Check with the instructor each semester before purchasing any prescribed texts or representative references