Case Study-II

Case Study-II

Introduction

The cost and economic pressure associated with the healthcare industry worldwide are the major factors that a manager of the hospital must focus on for the provision of effective and efficient care to the patients. Cost increments from all aspects often demand the consolidated positions or changed to fit in a better way with saving on expenses as well as with care provision.

Discussion

Job Redesign

The flexibility associated with the functions is basically a concept that supports redesigning of job as a process for improving the performance of an organization. By applying the holistic strategy, job redesign focuses on the improvement of services, via enhancing the number of skills to a description of job as well as the reduction of the number of employees needed to accomplish all tasks successfully.

Collection of Information

A person is required that is assigned for collecting all the available and possible information regarding the environment of work and current job for successful job redesign (Hayman, 2008). The information collection task includes documents that are pertained to several other tasks assigned to the job, descriptions of current job, databases, duty rosters, and minutes of meetings, tasks outcomes and employee behavior.

Another noteworthy aspect of this preparation phase is to observe the employees during their daily work routine. Work and movement studies play a vital role in the provision of fruit full information on the productivity as well as workflow of members in their respective roles. Interaction communication between workers among themselves and their interaction with patients as well as the linked activities gives good insight of the current job specification's efficiency. In order to plan the job redesign, conducting and informal conversations with staff members regarding their expectations of job are good sources.

Job Analysis

Job analysis is defined as a procedure of taking into consideration all the features of the redesigned or new job by splitting it into elements of job, autonomy level of the worker, abilities and skills needed to execute the job, knowledge and conduct that is necessary from the side of employee. The job analyst believes that the skills that are needed for the execution of redesigned job as well as the tasks carry out by the individuals are essential to perform each function of job, which in turn associates to the particular outcome.

Other Aspects related to Job Redesign

Environment of Work

It is the responsibility of the job analyst to evaluate and consider the present environment of work, the psychological effect of these alterations and the planned work environment of the newly designed job. The altered job will impact interrelationships among employees and the relationship between supervisor and the employees as well as the culture of organization (Ingersoll, 2002). The physical condition of environment may also alter when worker execute tasks in the areas that gained less attention before.

Socio-technologic environment

The newly designed job may incorporate technological components and the new work groups that are not known to the employee. As a job analyst, I will analyze that the effects of these alterations may influence the employee's perceptions in ...