Human Resources
Strategic HR Management HSA 530: Healthcare Human Resource Management April 28, 2013
Introduction
The human resource department is placed with the responsibility of ensuring that the company plans adequately for all the organization’s present and future engagements that will involve people. One important aspect of this is planning for employees in the organization. Human resource takes the organization under their wing and does whatever to increase value of the organization. This paper will discuss the competencies in HR, discuss challenges, and preparation of HR position and create a strategic view for the Medical University of South Carolina.
Describe the unique challenges of managing the human resources function for your specific organization. Receiving the position of vice president over human resource at the Medical University of SC is going to be a difficult challenge. The medical university has gone from a private hospital into a hospital that is one of the top academic health science center. The medical center has over 700 hundred beds and has six different colleges that train over 2,600 health care professionals per year. As vice president of MUSC, I will have to report to the CEO of the organization as well as multiple other vice presidents that are over other areas. One challenge that may arise is leadership development. Sometimes you have to ask yourself whether leaders are born or made? But the main objective is to develop leadership qualities. Training is a great tool and it used for long-term goals. According to Flynn, Mathis and Jackson (2011), “HR professionals in all segments of the industry will be faced with the challenge of recruiting and retaining the right number of competent employees for their organizations” (p. 11). The goal is to build the best team as possible then invest in training and reap the reward later on down the road. The next things to do as Vice President is build a collaboration with the team. The team is
Introduction
The human resource department is placed with the responsibility of ensuring that the company plans adequately for all the organization’s present and future engagements that will involve people. One important aspect of this is planning for employees in the organization. Human resource takes the organization under their wing and does whatever to increase value of the organization. This paper will discuss the competencies in HR, discuss challenges, and preparation of HR position and create a strategic view for the Medical University of South Carolina.
Describe the unique challenges of managing the human resources function for your specific organization. Receiving the position of vice president over human resource at the Medical University of SC is going to be a difficult challenge. The medical university has gone from a private hospital into a hospital that is one of the top academic health science center. The medical center has over 700 hundred beds and has six different colleges that train over 2,600 health care professionals per year. As vice president of MUSC, I will have to report to the CEO of the organization as well as multiple other vice presidents that are over other areas. One challenge that may arise is leadership development. Sometimes you have to ask yourself whether leaders are born or made? But the main objective is to develop leadership qualities. Training is a great tool and it used for long-term goals. According to Flynn, Mathis and Jackson (2011), “HR professionals in all segments of the industry will be faced with the challenge of recruiting and retaining the right number of competent employees for their organizations” (p. 11). The goal is to build the best team as possible then invest in training and reap the reward later on down the road. The next things to do as Vice President is build a collaboration with the team. The team is