- Lecture / Discussion
- Small group work
- Case studies
- Community experiences
- Community service-learning
Management
- Dimensions and skills of management
- Role of managers
- Being a manager, being a leader
- Variables affecting management
- Theories of management
- Application of management theory to therapeutic recreation settings
Funtions of Management
Planning
- Strategic, Contingency and Operational Plans
- Application from department level to organizational level
Organizing
- Principles of organizational behaviour and culture
- Generational differences in the workplace
- Human Rescource Management
- Staff, volunteer and student management, including recruitment, selection, orientation, recognition, team building and performance appraisal
- Job analysis and job descriptions
Leading
- Communication and motivation
- Conflict resolution
- Effective meetings
- Leadership, group dynamics
- Ethical principles of management applied to therapeutic recreation
- Advocacy - justification of department needs
Controlling
- Financial Resource Management
- Revenue sources
- Budget planning, monitoring
- Fund raising
- Performance reporting
- Resource Utilization
- Marketing and Public Relations
- Risk Management
- Quality Management systems, continuous quality improvement, quality assurance
- Accreditation, regulations
- Standards of practice
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- compare and contrast theories of management
- analyze the skills, responsibilities and challenges of being a manager in relation to self
- describe and apply management functions related to planning including strategic plans and operational plans
- develop and apply management functions related to controlling including marketing, financial management, risk management, and quality management
- describe effective management functions related to organizing including organizational culture and behaviours and human resource management tasks relating to staff, volunteers, and students
- understand management functions related to leading including motivation, conflict, ethics, advocacy and standards of practice
- apply management knowledge and skills to complete a community based service-learning project
This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations.
An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course. Typical means of evaluation will include a combination of
- Written reports
- Presentations
- Testing
- Service-learning project
This is a letter graded course.
A list of recommended textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of each semester.
Resources include:
- selected readings from a variety of therapeutic recreation practice text books
- selected audio-visual and computer resources
- selected readings from books and journals
Courses listed here must be completed either prior to or simultaneously with this course:
- No corequisite courses
Courses listed here are equivalent to this course and cannot be taken for further credit:
- No equivalency courses