Manpower Management

Human Resource Planning (HRP) manages and monitors all employee-related tasks in organizations. In particular, the role of HRP in healthcare organizations has gradually assumed a crucial status and recognition as it has to simultaneously combat several challenging propositions.

MANPOWER MANAGMENT

Human Resource Planning (HRP) manages and monitors all employee-related tasks in organizations. In particular, the role of HRP in healthcare organizations has gradually assumed a crucial status and recognition as it has to simultaneously combat several challenging propositions. This includes rising costs, economic instabilities, shortage of staff, evolving healthcare policies and government regulations. Maintaining adequate staff levels in the hospital based on patient needs and seasonal changes. Consultants also aid in making contingency plans to handle staff absenteeism and attrition by collaborating with medical staffing agencies to find immediate replacements so that patient care is not adversely affected.

SOME COMMON HR ISSUES LIMITING THE PERFORMANCE

Lack of a holistic approach in assessing the required competency and soft skills of the candidates at the time of recruitment.

Inadequate planning and budget allocation for training needs.

Biased reward systems which are not linked to the performance of hospital’s employees.

Performance appraisals based merely on target achievement without considering the ‘human’ angle which plays a critical role in the patient’s treatment and healing process.

ROLE OF CONSULTANTS IN ANALYZING MANPOWER MANAGMENT

Providing assistance in selecting, hiring, training, retaining and promoting the right clinical and support staff who remain loyal to the hospital since healthcare ethics substantially influences patient outcomes.

Guiding the hospital staff on the prudent use of hospital infrastructure and financial resources to meet its social commitments and obligations to the patients and the society at large. This must be scrupulously done without compromising on the hospital margins and retaining the profits of stockholders and owners. Decisions on the utilization of hospital reserves for maintaining the manpower is done considering the parameters and framework of the defined hospital budget.

Maintaining adequate staff levels in the hospital based on patient needs and seasonal changes. Consultants also aid in making contingency plans to handle staff absenteeism and attrition by collaborating with medical staffing agencies to find immediate replacements so that patient care is not adversely affected.

Helping in determining and assessing the training and credentials needs of the staff. This is essential as many of the clinical staff including nurses, physicians, radiologists, technicians and mental health counsellors must fulfill continuing education requirements to renew their licenses periodically. Consultants also coordinate with professionals to arrange in-house medical, service and behavioural training sessions and workshops for the hospital staff to keep them abreast of the latest medical advancements and attain higher service-levels.

Fixing the remuneration, incentives, benefits and developing suitable performance evaluation methods for the hospital staff in line with the current industry standards and competitor rates for retaining them.

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