ORGANIZZAZIONE AZIENDALE MEDICINA DEL LAVORO E DIAGNOSTICA PER IMMAGINI
Module ORGANIZZAZIONE AZIENDALE

Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: GIULIO MARINI

Expected Learning Outcomes

1 Knowledge and understanding 
The module poses the basics of organization science and public management applied to health systems, starting from the concept of organizational culture, professional bureaucracies, and professionalization of labour.  

 

2 Applying knowledge and understanding 
Students learn about the problem of new public management applied to health provisions, via the implementation of efficientist recipes, and the respective possible failures. The module discusses extensively the pros and cons of new forms of welfare state implementations in the scenario of increasing needs and dwindling public resources, leading to the multi-player governance.  

 

3 Making judgements
The modules teaches that it is important to refrain from "judging" colleagues and other professionals involved in the psychotherapist services. Instead, the module proposes to address a comprehensive vision to the psychotherapist rehabilitation. 

 

4 Communication Skills 
Students are encouraged to understand the importance and the respective difficulties in working in a multidisciplinary team. Not only the dialogue with patients is key to actually deliver their care; also, the way cooperation is attempted, proposed, and nurtured is key to improve patients' experience, and as well professionals’ satisfaction and mental health. 

5 Learning skills 
Students are encouraged to search for information at official sources to understand the organization they are delivering their job.  Students are also encouraged to learn the essentials of governing complex systems like the health services via the steering at the distance governance, namely, albeit not exclusively, via ex-post evaluation metrics. Students learn the impact of their actions in relation to ameliorate institutions' performances.

Course Structure

Lecture

Required Prerequisites

nil

Attendance of Lessons

Mandatory

Detailed Course Content

This module aims at fostering the foundantions to understand organizing phenomenon, with a focus on health sector

Textbook Information

List of material uploaded in due course over Teams. Articles delivered in pdf. Slides as ppt as well. 
On top of this material, students must study the following article:

Simionato, G., Simpson, S., & Reid, C. (2019). Burnout as an ethical issue in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 56(4), 470.

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Multichoice test

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

"Considering the article within reading material by the title X, which of the following sentences is wrong?" 4 answers, only one is right