Impact of Healthcare Trends on HRM in Acute Care Hospitals

Running Head: Health Care Human Resource
Health Care Human Resource
Dorathy Ubiam
Strayer University
Dr. Queensberry
April 24th, 2019

Health Care Human Resource 1
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Two Current Trends in Healthcare affecting HRM.........................................................................2
Opportunity for HR to cover challenges..........................................................................................3
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

Health Care Human Resource 2
Introduction
The purpose of this report is to enlighten the reader about the impact of the healthcare
trends on the human resource management activities of an acute care hospital growing the
community. This report is formed to evaluate the details of the human resource management
activities that the HR manager should initiate in order to successfully eliminate the negative
trends present in the environment. The latter part of the paper explains the recommendation for
the business along with employment law related to hiring in the community. More details about
the paper are discussed below:
Two Current Trends in Healthcare affecting HRM
Changing behaviour: changing the behaviour of the employee is one of the important
human resource trends present in the environment. The HR manager of the hospitals is
constantly facing the problem of changing behaviour of the employees of the business. As the
rate of medical innovation has been increased so it becomes difficult for the management of
hospitals to attract and train employees of the basis of their competence. So, it can be said that
changing behaviour of the employees of the company due to change in the introduction of
technology in the external environment is one of the trends of the business. This can affect the
hiring process in such a way that the business might face problems hiring people who work on
standard basis with them in the environment (Chamorro-Premuzic, & Furnham, 2010).
Find challenging skill set for the employees: Another trend present in the healthcare
industry is finding the right type of talent for the hospital to work with them. It is important for
the management to hire and work with group of people who are highly qualified in their degrees
and are trained in patient care services as well. Finding the right type of person for the business
is also creating the trend of workforce short for the hospitals in the environment. Lack of
adequate workforce creates delay in completion of the medical treatment in the environment due
to which satisfaction of the employees as well customers is introduced. Difficulty to find the
result type of talent for the business as well as changing behaviour of the environment due to
innovation are two most important trends present in the healthcare industry. If one of the trends
is adequately achieved in the business then the other trend will clearly follow its path and