Managing Human Resources in Health and Social Care: A Comprehensive Guide

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MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Contents
MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................2
LO 1.............................................................................................................................................................3
1.1 FACTORS CONSIDERED WHEN PLANNING RECRUITMENT OF INDIVIDUAL IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE........................................................................................................................................................3
1.2 ROLE OF LEGISLATION AND POLICIES OF HOME COUNTRY IN RECRUITING THE EMPLOYEES OR
INDIVIDUAL..............................................................................................................................................4
1.3 EVALUATING APPROACHES THAT ENSURES SELECTION OF BEST INDIVIDUALS................................5
LO 2.............................................................................................................................................................7
LO2.1 THEORIES OF INTERACTION OF INDIVIDUALS IN GROUP IN RELATION TO THE TYPE OF TEAM....7
2.2 Various approaches that might be used in London Nursing Home to develop effective team
working-..................................................................................................................................................8
LO 3.............................................................................................................................................................9
3.1 Ways to monitor the performance of individuals in social and healthcare sector.............................9
3.2 How individual training and development needs can be identified at London Nursing Home-...10
3.3 Different strategies for promoting the continuing development-...................................................11
LO4............................................................................................................................................................13
4.1 Explain the theories of leadership that apply to the Health and Social Care workplace..................13
4.2 Analyze how working relationships may be managed.....................................................................14
4.3 Evaluate how own development has been influenced by management approaches......................15
References.................................................................................................................................................17

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INTRODUCTION
This assignment focuses on management of human resources within health and social care. It is
essential to manage human resources as it will help or focus on the recruitment process and will
also give direction to people working in the organization. Having a good management team for
human resources will ensure good recruitment of individuals and will help in building a proper
and effective team (Reich, 1995). This assignment focuses on and explains the plan as to how
people can be recruited and explains the influence of legislation of the country in the selection of
an employee and will describe several approaches that can be adopted in the selection of an
individual. Several theories are explained as to how individuals interact in a group and also
evaluating approaches for effective team working. It will explain about ways in which
individual’s performance can be monitored and access training and development of an
individual. This assignment also focuses on analyzing different strategies that can be adopted to
improve the development of an individual. It will give details of theories of leadership and
analyzes working relationship and evaluation one’s own development which is influenced by
management approaches.

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LO 1
1.1 FACTORS CONSIDERED WHEN PLANNING RECRUITMENT OF INDIVIDUAL
IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Several factors are to be considered when planning recruitment of an individual but before that
one must understand the reason behind recruitment and that in itself is a very important factor.
Once the reason behind recruitment is known one can easily understand the requirement of the
organization from new recruits. Like in the case of London nursing home, the recruitment is
required as there is insufficient staff and also the efficiency of work provided is declining day by
day (Kabene et al, 2006). So while recruiting employees in London nursing home following
factors should be considered:
First and important factor is recruiting employees as per their skill. Skilful and dedicated
employees should be hired for providing better efficiency of work. They should be assessed
for having basic skills which can be helpful for work.
The second important factor is to have good communication skills, have good bonding with
teammates and good leadership qualities which will eventually help the organization to work
better.
The third important factor is the compensation provided by the organization, it should be
enough for the individual being recruited as this is one major issue due to which employees
quit.
Another important factor is having a good and healthy environment and the organization
must focus on providing working hours which are acceptable for the employees as well.
Another important factor is going by the norms and rules given by the government for
recruiting employees
All of these factors must be considered before recruiting any employee to ensure quality work at
London nursing home. One must keep this in mind that the recruitment should not be based on
favouritism but should focus on these factors.

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1.2 ROLE OF LEGISLATION AND POLICIES OF HOME COUNTRY IN RECRUITING
THE EMPLOYEES OR INDIVIDUAL
Organization alone cannot decide for the recruitment of employees. It is based on governmental
policies which provide the basis for any organization and guides them in the process.
There are several policies that are described by the government which will help the organization
in recruiting an individual:
1. Employment policy & legislation employment relations act 2004, (Stewart, Clark &
Clark, 2007).
2. Sex discrimination act 1975
3. The Race relation act 1976, (Miles, 1993).
Employment policy act mainly focuses on every employee being treated same way which
means having the same salary and no sort of discrimination should be done towards the
employees. This policy aids in preventing discrimination but different wages and
designations can be provided as per the company’s protocol.
These policies strictly focus on discrimination which is not to be done on any basis like sex,
race, religion etc. Sex discrimination can be described by 3 different types of discrimination
like:
Indirect discrimination
Here the victim is targeted indirectly for the process by complaining and notifying other
deficiencies rather than focusing on the main requirement (Mason, Leavitt & Chaffee, 2013).
Direct discrimination
In this, the individual is approached directly and is told about not being apt for the job just on
the basis of sex without looking into the profile or work experience or skill.
Victimization
It is basically victimizing a person and targeting them for every issue or problem which can
have a really bad result on the employee being victimized as his mental state can be affected.