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Master of Business Administration with an Emphasis in Health Systems Management

Outcomes

Student Outcomes (SOs)

Strategic Management and Organizational Development
Strategic Management and Organizational Development
Effective Communicator
Create strategic plans to improve an organization’s competitive advantage.
Create strategic plans to improve an organization’s competitive advantage.
Articulates clear position/ purpose throughout the writing
Construct logical, cohesive, and persuasive arguments.
Leverage digital marketing strategies to drive sustainable revenue and profit growth.
Leverage digital marketing strategies to promote organizational growth.
Demonstrates control of layout/presentation, vocabulary, and uses of discipline-specific language
Locate, verify, evaluate, and correctly cite print and electronic resources.
Apply leadership skills necessary for encouraging innovation within organizations.
Evaluate e-commerce strategies to leverage web-based sales to promote growth.
Demonstrates control of diction, tone, or register appropriate to a diverse audience throughout the writing
Exhibit proficiency in Standard American English for academic purposes.
Evaluate strategies for managing people within organizational systems.
Practice leadership skills necessary for encouraging innovation within organizations.
Demonstrates proper usage of grammar and syntax throughout the writing (i.e., spelling, capitalization, punctuation, varied sentence structure)
Demonstrate knowledge of the power and ethical ramifications of language choice and communication style.
Evaluate how principles of free markets affect the business ecosystem.
Evaluate strategies for managing people within organizational systems.
Demonstrates proper documentation of direct quotes, paraphrasing, references, and citing sources
Evaluate the tenets of conscious capitalism and determine the effects on the business ecosystem.
Research and Analysis
Research and Analysis
Innovative Thinking
Perform relevant, industry-specific research.
Perform relevant, industry-specific research.
Presents adequate information using sources that consider other perspectives
Demonstrate clarity and logic in asking relevant questions and acquiring knowledge.
Determine an organization’s accounting and budgeting processes.
Determine an organization’s accounting and budgeting processes.
Selects evidence that appropriately supports the position/purpose
Apply appropriate critical inquiry strategies (e.g., inductive and deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis) to issues and questions.
Analyze data using appropriate statistical modeling.
Analyze data using appropriate statistical modeling.
Develops position/purpose with reasoning and consistency
Make informed decisions based on historical, current, reliable, and valid information.
Analyze markets and consumer data to inform marketing strategy.
Analyze markets and consumer data to inform marketing strategy.
States a conclusion aligned to development
Evaluate metrics useful for analyzing and improving business operations.
Evaluate metrics useful for analyzing and improving business operations.
Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Christian Worldview
Recommend sound financial decisions based on analysis of a firm’s capital structure and capital budgeting techniques.
Recommend sound financial decisions based on analysis of a firm’s capital structure and capital budgeting techniques.
Examine the ideological foundation of the Christian worldview.

Examine the ideological foundation of the Christian worldview.
Evaluate an organization’s operations in order to improve the value chain.
Evaluate an organization’s operations in order to improve the value chain.
Analyze the implications of the Christian worldview as it relates to human value and dignity.
Analyze the implications of the Christian worldview as it relates to human value and dignity.
Make informed decisions utilizing technological solutions to capitalize on business opportunities.

Domains

Program Domains

Strategic Management and Organizational Development -
Graduates of Grand Canyon University’s Master of Business Administration program will be able to evaluate, formulate, and propose strategy to develop entrepreneurial ventures or innovate to grow or sustain existing organizations within rapidly evolving business environments.
- Create strategic plans to improve an organization’s competitive advantage.
- Leverage digital marketing strategies to promote organizational growth.
- Evaluate e-commerce strategies to leverage web-based sales to promote growth.

Faculty

Program Faculty

Our faculty are committed to bringing their abundant knowledge, enthusiasm, and experience to GCU and its students every day.

Disclosures

Make informed decisions in order to capitalize on business opportunities.

Analyze ethical decisions made from the Christian worldview.

Communicate business decisions in a compelling way to engage and influence stakeholders.

Clearly and persuasively articulate business decisions to relevant stakeholders.

Examine the application of the Christian worldview within the context of discipline and vocation.

Professionalism and Ethics

Transformative Leader

Demonstrate how a business can serve the common good using Christian values and free market principles.

Articulate an organization’s responsibilities to the greater social good from a Christian perspective.

Demonstrates personal accountability and responsibility with awareness of purpose

Collaborate effectively with others to meet goals.

Examine how ethical standards affect business decisions.

Analyze the ethical implications of decisions and promote ethical standards within organizations.

Incorporates best practices with decision making, in alignment with goals

Recognize leaders, the results of their styles, and rationale for differences.

Analyze and report data in a manner that upholds ethical standards.

Collect, use, and report data ethically.

Articulates aspects of respectful collaboration with all individuals (i.e., listening, open minded, sharing ideas, follow-through, conflict resolution, etc.)

Examine the consequences of choice; understand the concepts of accountability and personal responsibility.

Apply strategies for conducting business with integrity.

Practice strategies for conducting business with personal and professional integrity.

Demonstrates transformative actions to inspire and motivate growth in others (i.e., developing trust, servant leader, impact on others, being intentional, clear goals, authentic, credible/trustworthy, etc.)

Encourage and motivate others to achieve their goals.

Health Systems Management

Identify strategies to resolve ethical dilemmas in health care administration.

Develop financial plans to support the viability of health care organizations.

Demonstrates knowledge of societal aspects of the world (i.e. languages, cultures, religions, art, history, political/social issues, etc.)

Articulate knowledge of individual, group, and societal behavior.

Apply financial-analysis skills within the health care industry.

Analyze the role of government and national healthcare policies and programs and their impact on change within health care delivery systems.

Demonstrates an awareness and understanding toward diverse backgrounds, ideas and perspectives

Define personal role in a larger, diverse social context.

Analyze the impact of health care policy and reform on health care organizational practices.

Evaluate ethical challenges and ensure appropriate implementation of supporting policies and procedures in order to ensure ethical integrity.

Expresses the value and dignity of others through Christian virtues (i.e., compassion, respect, belonging, equity, acceptance, empathy, grace, objectivity, etc.).

Acknowledge individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds and belief systems, and interact appropriately.

Use knowledge of the past to develop understandings concerning the present or future.

Evaluate artistic and literary expression and how they influence and reflect society.

Practice leadership skills necessary for encouraging innovation within organizations.

Evaluate strategies for managing people within organizational systems.

Evaluate the tenets of conscious capitalism and determine the effects on the business ecosystem.

Research and Analysis -
Graduates of Grand Canyon University’s Master of Business Administration program will be able to perform industry research and analyze and synthesize data for the purpose of making sound business decisions that drive growth, sustainability, and operational improvement.

Perform relevant, industry-specific research.
Determine an organization’s accounting and budgeting processes.
Analyze data using appropriate statistical modeling.
Analyze markets and consumer data to inform marketing strategy.
Evaluate metrics useful for analyzing and improving business operations.

Critical Thinking and Decision Making -
Graduates of Grand Canyon University’s Master of Business Administration program will be able to effectively use data and critical reasoning to draw sound conclusions in order to solve complex business problems

Recommend sound financial decisions based on analysis of a firm’s capital structure and capital budgeting techniques.
Evaluate an organization’s operations in order to improve the value chain.
Make informed decisions in order to capitalize on business opportunities.
Clearly and persuasively articulate business decisions to relevant stakeholders.

Professionalism and Ethics -
Graduates of Grand Canyon University’s Master of Business Administration program will recognize business organizations’ and their own personal social, moral, and ethical responsibility to stakeholders, the community, and the greater social good.
- Articulate an organization’s responsibilities to the greater social good from a Christian perspective.
- Analyze the ethical implications of decisions and promote ethical standards within organizations.
- Collect, use, and report data ethically.
- Practice strategies for conducting business with personal and professional integrity.
Health Systems Management -
Graduates will be able to apply general business principles to the unique management situations that exist in the health care industry.
- Develop financial plans to support the viability of health care organizations.
- Analyze the role of government and national healthcare policies and programs and their impact on change within health care delivery systems.
- Evaluate ethical challenges and ensure appropriate implementation of supporting policies and procedures in order to ensure ethical integrity.

Master of Business Administration with an Emphasis in Health Systems Management

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