Human Resource Management - 635161 Introduction 3 Human Resource Management in the Healthcare Industry

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT – 635161

Table of Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................................3
Human resource management........................................................................................................3
Recruitment and selection..............................................................................................................3
Global healthcare industry.............................................................................................................3
Recruitment and selection issues in the healthcare industry...............................................3
Dealing with recruitment and selection issues.......................................................................5
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................6
References.................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
Human resource management
Human resource management is an approach that is used by business organisations in
ensuring a proper management of their human resources. It uses a number of core and non-
core functions, such a performance management, training and development, career
development, etc. to optimise the performance of the workforce and to establish better
workplace relations between employers and employees (Hendry, 2012) Human resource
management has gained a lot of importance in the past few decades because of its ability to
help business organisations in optimising the performance levels of their workforce.
Recruitment and selection
Recruitment and selection is a process in human resource management using which business
organisations are able to forecast all those vacancies that they are likely going to encounter in
their workplace in the near future and inviting job applications to fill up the vacancies
identified (Searle, 2009). Recruitment and selection aims at hiring the right people for the
right job at the right point of time so that an organisation can carry on its operations without a
halt and can avoid shortage of staff.
Global healthcare industry
The global healthcare industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, which
absorbs around 10% of gross domestic product of most of the developed nations. It comprises
of a broad list of services offered by hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, pharmacies,
diagnostic centres, etc. The global healthcare industry offers employment opportunities to
millions of people throughout the world and because of the rise in health related problems,
the industry is becoming one of the most important industries from a social point of view. In
the United States alone, there are over 750,000 physicians and more than 5,200 hospitals,
which is enough to describe the enormous size of the industry (Themedica, n.d.).
Recruitment and selection issues in the healthcare
industry
As discussed above, the global healthcare industry is a major industry because of its
enormous size and also because of the employment opportunities that it offers to the global
population. The healthcare industry offers a wide variety of job types, such as doctors,
assistants, receptionists, nurses, physicians, etc. but there are a number of challenges that the