Human Resource Management in Healthcare Field

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Human Resource Management in Healthcare Field
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Human resource management (HRM) is the art and science of managing people within an
organization in order to ensure that they deliver the performance goals assigned to them (Noe,
Hollenbeck, Gerhart, & Wright, 2017). Human resource management is a critical function of any
organization since it deals with the most precious resources within an organization. Human
resource management in the health sector is vital in the following ways.
Key Roles that HRM Plays in the Healthcare Field.
Talent acquisition: the human resource management department is responsible for hiring
the right personnel to perform the tasks in the healthcare facility. The talent acquisition process
involves the following stages; recruitment planning, strategy development, searching, screening,
evaluation and control (Kumari, 2012). Without the right human resource, a healthcare facility
can be able to deliver its objectives.
Compensation and remuneration: employees give input to the organization in the form
the tasks that they execute. In return, the organization is supposed to give compensation and
remuneration. It is the role of the personnel management department in the healthcare sector to
determine the remuneration to be paid to each employee. The HRM department should also
ensure that the remunerations are fair, and equitable (Guest, 2017).
Performance appraisal: this role of human resource management refers to the process of
evaluating personnel’s job performance against the expected performance. Its main aims are to
uncover organizational factors that deter performance and to determine personal factors that
thwart a worker’s performance (Bouskila-Yam, & Kluger, 2011). There are various techniques
that can be used which include; questionnaire, interview, observation, among others.

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Training and development: there is a great need for workers in the healthcare field to
have skills that are relevant to the tasks that they are expected to perform. Therefore, the human
resource management department is obligated to ensure that it conducts regular training of
workers using the most appropriate techniques, in order to match skills with job requirements
(Werner & DeSimone, 2011).
Diversity management: healthcare workers come from different backgrounds, they have
different personalities, values, and attitudes. Therefore, they will tend to behave differently.
Personnel management’s role is to harmonize diverse cultures and create a common
organizational culture (Kulik, 2014). Management of diversity increases pooling of abilities and
minimizes stereotyping and discrimination in the workplace.
Functions of HRM in the Healthcare Filed
Planning: this refers to the process of setting goals and coming up with a strategy to be
used so as to achieve the goals. In relation to human resource management in the healthcare
field, planning involves determining the human resource programs that can help to achieve the
goals of the organization, forecasting hiring needs, determining the source of human resource
needed, and formulating recruitment strategies, among others (DeCenzo, Robbins, & Verhulst,
2016).
Organizing: according to Burke (2011), this function involves coming up with the
organizational structure which defines the formal relationships of people in the healthcare
organization. It also involves allocating duties and responsibilities to workers based on their
competence, determining the hierarchy of authority, delegation of authority according to task
complexity and responsibility involved, and coordinating of the activities of various employees.