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Challenges of Human Resource Management in Healthcare: Current Issues and Research Agenda

   

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Running head: MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES
Managing human resources
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Cooke, F. L., & Bartram, T. (2015). Guest editors’ introduction: human resource
management in health care and elderly care: current challenges and toward a research
agenda. Human Resource Management, 54(5), 711-735.
Challenges in work designs are one of the major issues in the current global environment.
This is due to the reason workforces are more diversified in the current time and employees are
having different expectations and requirements from their workplace. Thus, it is challenging to
for the human resource managers to initiate the uniform work designs. Moreover, it is also
important to have the proper understanding about these challenges and their root causes. Cooke
and Bartram (2015) states about the current challenges of work design in this article. It is
identified that this article is based on the secondary research evidences due to the fact that the
conclusion is based on the existing researches about the role and importance of the human
resource management in the health care sector.
This article concluded that health care sector is becoming more extensive in the recent
time with the accumulation of the internal as well as external stakeholders. In addition, health
care sector is also covering larger avenues than what it was a few years ago. Thus, with covering
the larger areas and aspects, the diversity among the stakeholders is also getting increased. It is
identified in this article that multi stakeholder approach is important for the effective human
resource management due to the reason that involvement of different stakeholder groups is
getting increased in the health care sector. Moreover, it is also identified that cross country
considerations are important in studying the competitiveness of the healthcare. This is due to the
reason that with the effect of globalization on the healthcare sector, multi cultural approach is
getting more evident. Hence, the strategic intent of the human resource management strategy of
the health care sector should also have cross country approach to determine the differences in the
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social and cultural factors among the stakeholders. It should also be noted that health care sector
is included in the service industry and thus stakeholder considerations are important in having
proper and effective service delivery process. For instance, if the employees can be managed by
considering their different social and cultural factors, then the probability of getting the
maximum output from them will also be higher. Hence, the entire service delivery process will
get enhanced with the multi cultural approach of the human resource management in the health
care sector.
It can be concluded that initiation of the multicultural management approach is the major
challenge for the human resource managers in terms of the work designs. This is due to the
reason that determination of the different social and cultural factors in managing the employees
is complex as well as challenging to implement. With the rapid change in the cultural factors and
preferences, these challenges will get amplified in the future. In doing the essay 3, this article
will be helpful due to the reason that the contemporary challenges for the human resource
managers mainly in terms of work designs can be identified from this article. Hence, the
limitations can be analyzed further in the essay 3.
CHUANG, C. H., & Liao, H. U. I. (2010). Strategic human resource management in service
context: Taking care of business by taking care of employees and customers. Personnel
psychology, 63(1), 153-196.
The context of the human resource management is important to understand due to the
reason that even though the basic approaches of the human resource management is same and
similar, but their contexts are different and they are applicable from different perspectives. Thus,
in the case of health care sector, the context of the human resource management is different to
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