Health Care Human Resources Management
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Health Care Human Resources Management
LaShon Lulendo
October 26, 2014
Professor: Dr. Dana Chad Moretz
HSA 530-Health Services Human Resources Management
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Introduction
There are key factors that affect health care practices and human resources management. As a Human Resources manager at an acute care hospital, I have been asked to write a document that outlines the steps I would take as the manager of HR to improve the effectiveness of HRM in this organization. Proper management of human resources is critical in providing a high quality of health care. A refocus on human resources management in health care and more research are needed to develop …show more content…
a properly structured organization. Effective human resources management strategies are greatly needed to achieve better outcomes from and access to health care. In this paper, I will analyze two current trends in health care that are affecting human resources management that may likely impact the hiring decision as HR manager, suggest a significant opportunity for HR to become more of a strategic partner within an organization, recommend a model of human resources management that would be the most appropriate for this organization in question, recommend a strategy that HR could implement in order to develop more effective relationships between Human Resources and the organization’s managers and senior executives, indicating how each strategy will achieve the desired goal, determine a specific employment law that may affect the hiring and selection process at the acute hospital in your community.
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Analyze two current trends in health care that are affecting human resources management that may likely impact the hiring decision as HR manager. Provide support for your analysis.
One trend in healthcare that is affecting human resources management and may likely impact the hiring decision is the skill gaps. Half of the health care hiring and HR managers admit to a significant gap between the skills and experience an organization needs versus what candidates bring to the table. Another trend in health care that is affecting human resources management that will likely affect the hiring decision as a HR manager is increased workloads and high stress. http://thehiringsite.careerbuilder.com/2014/03/05/health-care-hr-week-diagnosing-issues-matter/ states, More than half (55 percent) of health care workers have noticed an increase in their workload over the past year, with 13 percent saying the difference is substantial. In fact, 1 in 4 plan to change jobs this year. Health care industry employees also had the highest rates of complaint when it came to stress levels and workload, with 69 percent of health care industry workers saying they feel “stressed” in their current jobs, and 17 percent describing themselves as “highly stressed.”
Suggest a significant opportunity for HR to become more of a strategic partner within an organization. Justify your response.
Human resources should be defined not by what it does but by what it delivers. As any manager would agree, Human Resources professionals should understand their organizations in particular and government in general, so as to make strategic contributions. Those who can offer business acumen on non-HR subjects will come to be viewed by operating departments
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
as credible partners. As a Human Resources Manager, one significant opportunity for HR to become more of a strategic partner within an organization is to show some clear actions that Human Resources can take. These include talent development in Human Resources, creating corporate centers of excellence, developing the right metrics and analytics, and, understanding how human capital management impacts business results.
Recommend a model of human resources management that would be the most appropriate for this organization in question. Provide support for your recommendation.
As a manager of Human Resources within an acute care hospital, I would recommend the Humanistic and Financial model to be the most appropriate. The Humanistic Model allows employees to foster their human values and potential within the organization and it assumes that enhancing the working life of each individual enhances the overall effectiveness of an organization. The Financial Model pays attention to the indirect compensation costs of health and dental insurance, life insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other benefits offered to employees and successful HR practitioners who work under this model are well versed in matters of finance. (Fallon & McConnell, 2012). In this economy, many employees choose their jobs because of the benefits that organizations offer, so the benefit plans are important and the HR practitioner needs to understand this information and get the right plans in place for the employees to be happy.
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Recommend a strategy that HR could implement in order to develop more effective relationships between Human Resources and the organization’s managers and senior executives, indicating how each strategy will achieve the desired goal.
It is imperative for HR to have a great relationship with senior executives and organizational managers because it sets the tone for the organization.
The primary reason human resources, senior executives and organization manager’s should work together is because both parties have a vested interest in ensuring the company achieves success. Senior executive’s that have power and influence are respected and respect leads to involvement and interdependence throughout the organization. However, a strategy that HR could implement in order to develop more effective relationships between HR and the organization’s managers and senior executives would be to involve reviewing projections concerning future business demands to determine whether to train current employees to prepare them for promotions or to recruit candidates with higher level skills to augment the current employee knowledge base. http://smallbusiness.chron.com/should-hr-line-managers-work-together-10377.html states By working together, on immediate and future staffing needs, HR, senior executives and organization’s manager’s benefit from reduced cost per hire and turnover. In addition, the organization benefits from appropriate succession planning and adequate …show more content…
staffing.
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Determine a specific employment law that may affect the hiring and selection process at the acute hospital in your community.
Provide for your rationale.
One specific employment law that would affect the hiring and selection process at the acute hospital in the community would be the Equal Pay act. The Equal Pay act was an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. This act prohibited the payment of unequal wages for men and women who worked for the same employer in the same established performing equal work on jobs requiring equal skill, effort and responsibility, and performed under similar working conditions.
Conclusion
The human resources department provides vital services to any organization and the health care providers are no exception to this rule. (Fallon and McConnell 2012). Proper management of human resources is critical in providing a high quality of health care. A refocus on human resources management in health care and more research are needed to develop a properly structured organization. Effective human resources management strategies are greatly needed to achieve better outcomes from and access to health care.
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT
References:
Fallon Jr., L. F., & McConnell, C. R. (2012.) Human Resource Management in Health Care. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett http://smallbusiness.chron.com/should-hr-line-managers-work-together-10377.html retrieved via the internet on October 23, 2014 http://thehiringsite.careerbuilder.com/2014/03/05/health-care-hr-week-diagnosing-issues-matter/ retrieved via the on October 22, 2014
Health Care Human Resources Management
LaShon Lulendo
October 26, 2014
Professor: Dr. Dana Chad Moretz
HSA 530-Health Services Human Resources Management
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Introduction
There are key factors that affect health care practices and human resources management. As a Human Resources manager at an acute care hospital, I have been asked to write a document that outlines the steps I would take as the manager of HR to improve the effectiveness of HRM in this organization. Proper management of human resources is critical in providing a high quality of health care. A refocus on human resources management in health care and more research are needed to develop …show more content…
a properly structured organization. Effective human resources management strategies are greatly needed to achieve better outcomes from and access to health care. In this paper, I will analyze two current trends in health care that are affecting human resources management that may likely impact the hiring decision as HR manager, suggest a significant opportunity for HR to become more of a strategic partner within an organization, recommend a model of human resources management that would be the most appropriate for this organization in question, recommend a strategy that HR could implement in order to develop more effective relationships between Human Resources and the organization’s managers and senior executives, indicating how each strategy will achieve the desired goal, determine a specific employment law that may affect the hiring and selection process at the acute hospital in your community.
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Analyze two current trends in health care that are affecting human resources management that may likely impact the hiring decision as HR manager. Provide support for your analysis.
One trend in healthcare that is affecting human resources management and may likely impact the hiring decision is the skill gaps. Half of the health care hiring and HR managers admit to a significant gap between the skills and experience an organization needs versus what candidates bring to the table. Another trend in health care that is affecting human resources management that will likely affect the hiring decision as a HR manager is increased workloads and high stress. http://thehiringsite.careerbuilder.com/2014/03/05/health-care-hr-week-diagnosing-issues-matter/ states, More than half (55 percent) of health care workers have noticed an increase in their workload over the past year, with 13 percent saying the difference is substantial. In fact, 1 in 4 plan to change jobs this year. Health care industry employees also had the highest rates of complaint when it came to stress levels and workload, with 69 percent of health care industry workers saying they feel “stressed” in their current jobs, and 17 percent describing themselves as “highly stressed.”
Suggest a significant opportunity for HR to become more of a strategic partner within an organization. Justify your response.
Human resources should be defined not by what it does but by what it delivers. As any manager would agree, Human Resources professionals should understand their organizations in particular and government in general, so as to make strategic contributions. Those who can offer business acumen on non-HR subjects will come to be viewed by operating departments
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
as credible partners. As a Human Resources Manager, one significant opportunity for HR to become more of a strategic partner within an organization is to show some clear actions that Human Resources can take. These include talent development in Human Resources, creating corporate centers of excellence, developing the right metrics and analytics, and, understanding how human capital management impacts business results.
Recommend a model of human resources management that would be the most appropriate for this organization in question. Provide support for your recommendation.
As a manager of Human Resources within an acute care hospital, I would recommend the Humanistic and Financial model to be the most appropriate. The Humanistic Model allows employees to foster their human values and potential within the organization and it assumes that enhancing the working life of each individual enhances the overall effectiveness of an organization. The Financial Model pays attention to the indirect compensation costs of health and dental insurance, life insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other benefits offered to employees and successful HR practitioners who work under this model are well versed in matters of finance. (Fallon & McConnell, 2012). In this economy, many employees choose their jobs because of the benefits that organizations offer, so the benefit plans are important and the HR practitioner needs to understand this information and get the right plans in place for the employees to be happy.
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Recommend a strategy that HR could implement in order to develop more effective relationships between Human Resources and the organization’s managers and senior executives, indicating how each strategy will achieve the desired goal.
It is imperative for HR to have a great relationship with senior executives and organizational managers because it sets the tone for the organization.
The primary reason human resources, senior executives and organization manager’s should work together is because both parties have a vested interest in ensuring the company achieves success. Senior executive’s that have power and influence are respected and respect leads to involvement and interdependence throughout the organization. However, a strategy that HR could implement in order to develop more effective relationships between HR and the organization’s managers and senior executives would be to involve reviewing projections concerning future business demands to determine whether to train current employees to prepare them for promotions or to recruit candidates with higher level skills to augment the current employee knowledge base. http://smallbusiness.chron.com/should-hr-line-managers-work-together-10377.html states By working together, on immediate and future staffing needs, HR, senior executives and organization’s manager’s benefit from reduced cost per hire and turnover. In addition, the organization benefits from appropriate succession planning and adequate …show more content…
staffing.
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Determine a specific employment law that may affect the hiring and selection process at the acute hospital in your community.
Provide for your rationale.
One specific employment law that would affect the hiring and selection process at the acute hospital in the community would be the Equal Pay act. The Equal Pay act was an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. This act prohibited the payment of unequal wages for men and women who worked for the same employer in the same established performing equal work on jobs requiring equal skill, effort and responsibility, and performed under similar working conditions.
Conclusion
The human resources department provides vital services to any organization and the health care providers are no exception to this rule. (Fallon and McConnell 2012). Proper management of human resources is critical in providing a high quality of health care. A refocus on human resources management in health care and more research are needed to develop a properly structured organization. Effective human resources management strategies are greatly needed to achieve better outcomes from and access to health care.
HEALTH CARE HUMAN RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT
References:
Fallon Jr., L. F., & McConnell, C. R. (2012.) Human Resource Management in Health Care. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett http://smallbusiness.chron.com/should-hr-line-managers-work-together-10377.html retrieved via the internet on October 23, 2014 http://thehiringsite.careerbuilder.com/2014/03/05/health-care-hr-week-diagnosing-issues-matter/ retrieved via the on October 22, 2014