Goal: The paper presents educational and teaching change by discussing the results of our study of management education in the health care sector in order to foster innovation for the purpose of better learning, teaching and curriculum development.
Methodology: Personal reflection and content analysis were used as a method to identify health care students’ values and perceptions of role models, management and decision-making patterns.
Conclusion: Decision-making in health care demands risk management, crisis management, precision and good knowledge of personal abilities and values. Many of our health care students will after the completion of our course work with patients in difficult life situations that will bring with them many ethical dilemmas and emotional pressure. In order to support health care staff in professional decision-making and enable them making the right decisions for the majority of stakeholders (patients, relatives, nursing staff, physicians, etc.) we will provide recommendations for policy makers.
Keywords: empowerment, knowledge management, management education, agility, resilience
"One of the findings for “role model” association is that students often perceive embodiment of the term “role model”, meaning that they often answered to our inquiry: “Who do you perceive as role model?” the role model in their community. The implications of our research are in highlighting the importance for educators in higher education institutions to start the educational process with perceptions of students regarding the lectured topic as this very much influences the comprehension and application of the discussed study materials. Unfortunately, due to the vast amount of available theoretical materials educators have to share with their students there is often no time for integrating the students’ perceptions into management education. Our study shows that comprehension and students’ collaboration at the course is better if we do take the time for questioning their perception before and after the course." - Judita Peterlin.
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