Fundamentals Of Human Resources In Healthcare

Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success, Third Edition, presents the techniques and practices behind effectively managing people -- the healthcare industry's most important asset. It provides the concepts and practical tools necessary for meeting the unique challenge of managing healthcare employees. Key Features: * This edition includes: - An expanded chapter on health and safety in the workplace, highlighting disaster preparedness and management - A new chapter on globalization and the mobile workforce - A new chapter focusing on employee benefits and benefit design - An expanded chapter on training and career development - A new section containing complex cases * Chapters include cases, discussion questions, and exercises * Covers fundamental topics as well as timely issues

Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success, Fourth Edition, presents the techniques and practices behind effective management of people the healthcare profession s most important asset. It provides the concepts and practical tools necessary for meeting the unique challenges in today s healthcare environment.

Basic Concepts of Health Care Human Resource Management, Second Edition is a comprehensive overview of the role of Human Resource Management (HRM) in all aspects of healthcare management. Beginning with a survey of HRM, from its beginnings to present-day trends, the text moves on to cover state and federal healthcare laws, codes of ethics, staffing organizations, training and development, employee relations, and long-term planning. The Second Edition continues to provide the essential tools and strategies for HRM personnel to become empowered custodians of change in any healthcare organization. Taking into account the increasing diversity of patients and employees, the effects of technology and globalization on healthcare delivery, the credentialing of health care providers, and the measurement of labor productivity and much more, this text is an essential resource for HRM students and practitioners alike.

Strategic management of HR in health care is important in delivering high-quality patient care. This volume of Advances in Health Care Management which focuses on Human Resource Management aims to explore the strategic role that HRM can play in delivering high quality and affordable health care.

Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success, Third Edition, presents the techniques and practices behind effectively managing people -- the healthcare industry's most important asset. It provides the concepts and practical tools necessary for meeting the unique challenge of managing healthcare employees. Key Features: * This edition includes: - An expanded chapter on health and safety in the workplace, highlighting disaster preparedness and management - A new chapter on globalization and the mobile workforce - A new chapter focusing on employee benefits and benefit design - An expanded chapter on training and career development - A new section containing complex cases * Chapters include cases, discussion questions, and exercises * Covers fundamental topics as well as timely issues

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.

This book introduces human resources to practitioners and students in all disciplines related to health care and health service. It covers important topics such as recruitment, training, termination, legal issues, labor unions, and more. Each chapter is introduced by a case study related to the material that follows and is resolved at the conclusion of each chapter along with expert commentary and practical suggestions that can be used in the real world. Many examples and a number of sample forms and documents are included. This edition has been re-organized to reflect a better chapter flow and organization, and offers: all data updated throughout; a new section on health care legislation; a new section in each chapter, "Customer Service Box", that emphasizes the importance of customer service in the context of the material presented in the chapter; and completely revised instructor ancillary material. --