Human Resource Management in Capstone Healthcare

Human Resource Management in Capstone Healthcare

Introduction

Health care sector has more interaction with people than any other sector and the dependence on people to carry out its objectives is more critical than any other industry. The importance of the health sector can be estimated by the number of employees attached to health care industry. Globally more than 35 million people are directly and indirectly linked with health care industry. The associate cost of inappropriate HR policies can result in million of dollar as waste. Therefore, successful organizations in health care industry are well aware of this cost and they pay required attention to the HR practices and policies. Capstone health care is the case in point to discuss the HR practices and policies.

Description of the Organization

Capstone healthcare is a health care private organization which has number of specialization in different medical and health care industry. It basically provides the health care staffing and recruiting services for different public and private sector health and care organization. it provides all kind of health care services and products. It has highly qualified nurses, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other health care professionals. Capstone is service providing health care organization which simply provides staffing and recruitment services to different hospital; therefore it has no patients' related facilities like number of patient's bed etc.

Capstone claims to provide complete solutions to staffing and recruitment problems. It has ranged of qualified and experienced staff depending on the need of the client. Capstone provides competitive rates to the medical professionals and at the same time, capstone provides competitive rates as compared to other competitors. Its headquarter is located in Northeast Texas and it provides health care facilities across the nation. Currently capstone healthcare staffing has been awarded as the certification in a Health Care Staffing Service Agency by Joint Commission (Capstonerx.com, 2012).

Discussion

As the capstone is service providing company, then it would be good to discuss the human resource management aspect of the organization. in the starting phase, we will put light on the existing human resource management policies and practices of the organization and then we will identify the different aspects of the of HR practices and compare it with the ideal policies of health care policies and the actual practices of health care sectors. Then it will be easy to assess the gap and then accordingly we will put some important suggestion and intervention programs for better performance.

HR Policies and Practices Capstone Healthcare

The role of human resource management in every organization is very important and in the health care industry the role of HR is very crucial due to the nature of the industry. The relation between the doctor and the patient is very close as well as complicated and it is health care industry that provides links between them and it is therefore, the role of health care industry has become more and more crucial. The backbone of the industry is based on Human resource management (Chopra et ...