Entrepreneurship, Business Competence and Legal Matters (5cr)

Content scheduling

Entrepreneurship today and tomorrow
Special featuress of entrepreneurship in health care and social work
Starting a business, financing, and different forms of enterprise
Female entrepreneurship
Internal and external entrepreneurship as a guiding principle
Legal issues in the health and social sector

Objective

The student is able to:
- use the entrepreneurial knowledge base in the development and management of health care and social work professional environments
- recognize the complexity of entrepreneurship and renew his/her views on entrepreneurship in health care and social work
- acquire knowledge regarding contract law and general contract conditions from the viewpoint of different stakeholders in the procurement
- acquire knowledge concerning essential working life acts and codes of health care and social work

Content

Entrepreneurship in health care and social work
Starting a business, financing, and different forms of enterprise
Female entrepreneurship
Internal and external entrepreneurship as a guiding principle
The main principles and legislation of contract law
Acquisition agreement in public acquisitions
Structure options of acquisition agreements
Monitoring of agreements

Materials

Kainlauri, A. 2007. Ideasta hyvinvointialan yrittäjäksi. Juva: WSOY
Metsämäki, R. Nummelin, M. Stol,, M. J. & Salminen, L. 2009. Hoivayrittäjyyden tuet ja kannattavuus. Teoksessa M. Stolt ja L. Salminen (toim.) Hoivayrittäjyyden perusteita terveysalan opettajille. Turun yliopisto. Hoitotieteen laitoksen julkaisu. Tutkimuksia ja raportteja A57/2009
The material on legal matters will be given at the beginning of the course

Teaching methods

lecture, field trip, independent work

International connections

(For entrepreneurship:) Optional field trip abroad

Completion alternatives

(For entrepreneurship:)
Field trip or presentation on an enterprise

Student workload

130 hours, including 24 hours (3 days) of contact teaching and 106 hours of independent work.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student is able to describe entrepreneurship in health care and social work, to use the entrepreneurial knowledge base in development and management work. The student is able to describe the main principles of contract law, acquisition law and working life legal acts.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student is able to compare the entrepreneurial knowledge base within different settings in health care and social work, and to implement it in the development and management work. The student is able to compare different acquisition agreements and their effects.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student is able to analyze the actual entrepreneurial knowledge base in health care and social work and critically apply it in development and management work. The student is able to analyze and evaluate acquisition agreements from the viewpoints of different stakeholders.