Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach

This book is a comprehensive guide to the essential areas of health care human resources management, and is an immediately useful practical handbook for practitioners as well as a textbook for use health care management programs. Written by the authors of Handbook for the New Health Care Manager and Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, the book covers the context of human resources management in the unique health care business arena from a strategic perspective includes SHRM and human resources planning, organizational culture and assessment, and the legal environment of human resources management. Managing volunteers and job analysis perfor­mance appraisal instruments, training and development programs, and recruitment, targeted selection and hiring techniques are covered. Compensation poli­cies and practices, employer-provided benefits management, implementation of training and organizational development programs, as well as labor-management relations for health care organizations and healthcare human resource information technology are covered, with practical examples and proven strategies amply provided in each chapter.

Keywords: Public Health Services & Policy, health services human resource management, human resource management in public health settings, work in health services, workplace assessment in health services, motivators in health services, HR planning for health services, recruitment in health services decentralization in health services, criteria-based position descriptions in health services, performance appraisals in health services, career ladder development in health services, incentives in health services, improve retention in health services, regulatory issues in health services, accreditation issues in health services