HRM IN HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS

HRM in Health Care Institutions

HRM in Health Care Institutions

Introduction

Identification of the factors that predict an organization's performance or behavior are the ones most important from a organizational viewpoint. We can examine a number of factors in this context, for example, structure, strategy, environmental conditions and technology that are being used.

According to researches that have been carried out, a considerable amount of effects of people's management or human resource management practices is examined. It is also observed that these Human Resource Management practices have great impact on organizational outcomes. These practices involve the use of jobs with low level of skills autonomy and variety, and the minimization of expenditure on development, compensation, selection and training. Progressive Human Resource Managament practices aim to maximize the skill, motivation and knowledge of employees. Examples include the use of systematic performance appraisals, validated selection procedures (e.g., structured interviews and psychometric tests), non-monetary benefits, job enrichment, comprehensive training programs, incentives, team working, and participation in decision-making. A number of studies have stated that progressive Human Resource Managament practices are positively associated with organizational profitability and productivity.

Within the health care systems worldwide, a relatively increased attention has been directed towards human resource management. Human resource, when considered related to health care, can be explained as the non-clinical and clinical staff members who are responsible for individual and public health involvement.

The benefits and performance system that is delivered largely depends upon the skills, knowledge and motivation of the people who are responsible for the health care. The provision to provide quality patient care is one of the biggest priorities of health care institutions.

Though, there has been a lot written about the quality care, the current definitions consider the reality faced by the people at health care institutions on the daily basis practices of quality care. In a study, United States determined the relationship between the mortality rates and the nursing care of the organizations. Hospitals that had the potential to retain and attract good health care staff and provided opportunities for nursing care were compared with control hospitals. This research was made considering the reputation of “magnet hospitals” instead of other objective, and the explanation of results was highly speculative. Analyses on organizational performances and people's management have come up with some key practices and suggestions that could help in enhancing the level of performances such as team working, appraisal and training. The employee motivation will definetly increase the productivity of patients outcome.

The affects of HRM on Health Care Sector and Patients' Outcomes

When globally examining health care system, we should also consider many issues and queries that come up. Some of the issues include distribution, composition and size of the workforce at health care institutions, migration of workers, the level of economic development in a country and socio-demographic, workforce training issues, cultural and geographical factors. Variation in distribution, composition and size of a particular country's workforce in health care institution is of great importance. The numbers of workers available in health care institutions ...