Attracting and Retaining Staff in Healthcare Industry

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“Essay on Attracting and Retaining staff in healthcare industry”
The purpose of this essay is to provide a brief introduction to the challenges faced by the
companies in attracting and retaining employees at the workplace. At every organization, it is
very important for the management to attract and retain the employees so as to increase the
productivity of the company in the target market. The essay explains the challenges faced by the
organizations present in health care industry in managing the staff and decreasing the employee
retention rate in the organization present in the health care industry. For every organization, the
employees are the most important asset for them with the help of which the companies increase
their share and productivity in the target market (McCracken,Currie, & Harrison, 2016).
Further, it should be noted that the healthcare industry is very crucial industry where the
organizations need to employ people who are competent enough to work for them and initiate
activities that benefit the society at large. Not all the people present in the industry can easily
fulfill each other's place, instead, the companies require to employ the people with adequate
skills and knowledge to work for the betterment of the health of other people present in the
environment. Initially talking about the reasons to attract and retain the employees in the
healthcare industry, it should be noted that it is very important for the organizations present in
the healthcare industry to manage employee turnover as the less rate of employee turnover, more
level of satisfaction employees receive in the organization (George, 2015). The HR managers of
the companies try hard to maintain the retention strategies so as to manage the employee
turnover in the organization. In a hospital where the doctors and nurses keep on leaving the
organization shows that the organization is not strong enough to retain the employees and it is
unable to satisfy the requirements of the employees due to which they leave resulting to which
turnover subsequently increases. So, it is important for organizations to attract and retain the
employees so as to manage the employee turnover rate. The high rate in this case also influence
other satisfied employees to leave the job as well (Roehling, 2017).
Further, it should also be noted that this activity is important for the organizations present in the
healthcare industry to manage their expenses and costs involved with the business. The cost of
employing people in the organization and managing their interest is just like negligible but the
companies pay a huge cost to retain the employee. So, at a healthcare center where the
employees constantly leave the job, in such organization the company needs to timely initiate the

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recruitment process to manage the adequate requirement of employees with the organization
(Shemdoe, et. al., 2016). Resulting in which, the company pays heavy recruitment costs that
change their focus as well. Thus, in order to become cost effective and grow, it is important for
the organizations to retain the employees and attract them as well. In a healthcare organization,
the customers prefer getting checked up by the doctor is known to them and is working for a long
time in the organization as they do not trust any new employee for their check-up. So, if the
healthcare center faces the issue in retaining the employees then subsequently the customers and
the productivity of the organization will also reduce as the customer will go to the same doctor
who is being hired another organization. Retention and attraction of employees are important in
the healthcare industry for the growth and survival of the organization (Alameddine, et. al.,
2016). An organization where the employees are working from the beginning, that organization
retains the customers in the organizations as well. The healthcare industry has now days become
the most prominent industry as every person is becoming health conscious due to which they
visit the healthcare centers on a regular basis. So, the customers get their health checkup done by
the familiar people of the organization, and then it becomes a trust on the activities due to which
they believe that the organization will subsequently make them fit. Thus, trust and bonding of
customer with the organization with the increase in retention and attraction activity of employees
at the workplace (Shields, et. al., 2015).
Additionally talking about the challenges faced by the organizations in attracting and retaining
the employees in the healthcare industry, it should be noted that it is very important for the
organizations present in this industry to hire the right people who can actively work to increase
the productivity of the organization. Without good and qualified employees, an organization can
never serve its patients, communities, and families. So, hiring the right type of people and
engaging them, and retaining the existing employees will help the organization to gain a higher
level of morale, lower employee turnover, and a stronger bottom line as well. The organization
faces demographic, economic, and competitive challenges in the environment that stagnate the
overall growth of the industry (Fortenberry Jr, & McGoldrick, 2016). It is assumed that the
healthcare industry will become the fastest growing industry in some time from now as there is
high degree of human resource requirement in this industry. There is no industry that is more
outdated in recruiting and managing employee turnover in the market. The ways to recruit and
retain the employees is very outdated that reduces the satisfaction level of the employees in the