Managing People in Health and Social Care

This report discusses techniques for managing people in health and social care, including maximizing individual and group performance, analyzing career development and lifelong learning opportunities, monitoring performance, identifying individual training needs, promoting continuous professional development, and managing a diverse workforce. The report also includes specific examples and strategies for Health4All, a well-known organization in the sector.

MANAGING PEOPLE IN HEALTH
AND SOCIAL CARE

Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Covered in PPT...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Explaining how to maximise individual and group performance by implementing different
performance management solutions............................................................................................3
Analyse career development and lifelong learning opportunities in the Health and Social Care
sector...........................................................................................................................................4
Explain techniques for monitoring performance in Health and Social Care..............................6
Assess methods for identifying individual training and developing needs.................................7
Analyse techniques for promoting continuous professional development in health and social
care..............................................................................................................................................8
Analyse the significance of cultural diversity to the Health and Social Care sector................10
Explain the benefits of a culturally diverse workforce.............................................................11
Assess strategies for managing a diverse workforce.................................................................12
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................13

TASK 1
Covered in PPT
TASK 2
INTRODUCTION
Human resource planning refers to a continuous process of systematic planning which can
use with an optimum level within the organization. This can allows to get effective and
quality employees within the organization. Human resource planning allows to best fit
between employees and job. In this report, there is a discussion about how to maximize
individual and group performance through implementing various management solutions.
There is an analysis of development and lifelong learning opprutnities within health and
social care. This report consists explanation of different techniques for monitoring
performance within organisation. There is also discussion about different methods for
identifying individual training along development needs. There are also techniques analysis
for promotion continuous professional development. This report also includes the benefits of
a diverse workforce along with strategies.
MAIN BODY
Explaining how to maximise individual and group performance by implementing different
performance management solutions
Various tools can be used to improve the performance management process which can help to
improve individual or group performance within Health4All. There are some of the performance
management solutions are discussed further (Ali and et. al., 2017).
 Real-time feedback- This is the process that helps to improve the performance of
individual or group performance. This is the solution where feedback can provide the
information about the improvement area where individuals or groups should focus on the
better and effective improvement for their service delivery. Health4All organisations
should focus on real-time feedback, this can help to get an evaluation of every helath care

professionals for the better and improved performance of every staff and healthcare
professionals.
 Personal Development Plan- This is the solution that can allow individuals or groups to
focus on their skills and to improve their skills that can help in their professional work.
This is effective and allows to improve the overall performance of the employees. This
can be helpful for Health4All to improve the performance of healthcare professionals.
This can be highly effective for the Health4All organization to constantly improving the
performance of healthcare professionals (Avis, Fisher and Thompson, 2018).
 Reward and recognition schemes- Every employee work for their paycheck. This is an
effective solution for every healthcare professionals. Getting recognition or any type of
reward can help to motivate healthcare professionals to work effectively within
Health4All. Recognition can also help motivate employees for their work performance
and influence them to work effectively.
Analyse career development and lifelong learning opportunities in the Health and Social Care
sector
In order to maintain the career , it is necessary for the people to pay more attention on the
career development opportunities so that they can effectively make career more brighter. Career
development and lifelong learning both are helpful to improve the personal and professional
development of the people and also evolve the growth opportunities for the individuals. Career
development lead the lifelong learning so that individual can appropriately shape their career and
improve those skills which are helpful to make their career more stronger. Continuous learning
helpful to open up the new doors in context of career. Individual need to continuously focus on
their knowledge and skills so that they can continuously work on their career development
process (Cawley, 2018).
Career development improve the chances of lifelong learning and also improve the
interest level of the individual so that they can effectively work with the passion in order to
achieve their ambition. Lifelong learning is helpful to improve the satisfaction level and also
evolve the motivation among the people so that they can actively participate to make their career
more stronger. In order to improve the career development in the health and social care sector, it

is compulsory for the individuals to focus on specific strategies and prepare a strategic
management plan about the career development & set long and short term goals so that they can
effectively get good career opportunities in the health and social sector. Some specific examples
of life long learning in term of Health4All like enhancement of a new skills, learning a new
activity, learning new technologies & acquiring the nee knowledge.
Career development & lifelong learning opportunities are those which are helpful to allows the
each & individuals in order to reach the new level of the personal & professional development
like contentious education, skill advancement and also networking. There are various career
development & lifelong learning opportunities in context of the health and social sector that is
Health4All which are discussed below - Networking events - Through this career development opportunities , individuals can
effectively improve their networking skills so that people can appropriately build their
career in the health and social sector. Health4All is the containing as the famous
organization which mainly hire high potential candidates so that they can improve their
performance. Professional networking groups - Through effective practices of career development
opportunities , people can appreciate create their professional networking groups so that
they can effectively in improving their performance in health care sector (Gomez and
Bernet, 2019). Industry training courses - Through industry training courses, individuals can
effectively improve their career advancement and also get an appropriate job role in the
health and social sector.
 Mentor- ship - in order to get an appropriate career development opportunities it is
necessary for the people to focus on their own current skills so that they can make a
personal development plan in order to maintain the existing skills and improve the
required skills for their selected job role in the health & social sector. After the sharpen
the skills, people can effectively start mentor- ship and guide other people (Holt, 2017).
 Skill advancement certification - with the help of skill advancement certification, health
care and social sector can give preference to those individuals who have a advancement
certification so that this sector can effectively evolve their performance with the active

participation of their staff members. Through skill advancement certification, individuals
can easily get a goods career development opportunity in healthcare and social sector.
Explain techniques for monitoring performance in Health and Social Care
Health care and social care sector generally maintain their performance level and also utilize
various techniques in order to monitoring their performance in context of the health & social care
sector. Healthcare performance measurement techniques are useful to aggregated & analyzed
quantified data on the effective and particular health related activity. The main motive of
performance monitoring techniques is to you recognition the opportunity for the improvement in
the quality of care, increase the efficiency level of care & also declined the cost. Health4All is a
well known organization which is more focus on implementing the effective practices in order to
monitoring the performance level of the company (Kalargyrou and Costen, 2017). There are
some specific techniques are considering while the health and social care sector in order to
maintain their performance. The elaboration of of specific techniques are given below -
 Graphic rating scales - This scale is mainly focus on the sequential number like 1to 5
and ,1 to 10 rating for the employees . The prime motive of this rating scale is on the
performance and specific areas.
 Checklists - A simple "yes-no" checklist can be utilize to quickly assess employees who
are deficient in several areas of performance. It can also uncover the people who require
further training & expertise in order to improve their productivity
 Self-Evaluation - It can be highly useful to ask an employee to evaluate their own
performance. Employees are usually more critical of their own performance than you are.
You can also use a form with the multiple-choice questions, essay-style questions, or a
mixture of the two. Comparing and evaluating a self-evaluation to an objective appraisal
can aid you to uncover parallels & differences, as well as gain a better understanding of a
staff performance. It has the potential to spark discussions that are good to staff growth
(Pratono, 2018).
 360-degree feedback - This technique is mainly consider the opinions , comments & also
judgement of the employees performance from the people with whom they work in the
enterprises . Coworkers, bosses & others may be included. HR manager can notice good
& negative similarities & also patterns as per the examine input from a variety of

sources. Manager can also determine which area may require more measurements &
assistance. In contrast of Health4All organization, the main focus of the company is on
the performance of the workforce.
 Management by Objectives (MBO) - This term is also characterized as "management by
outcomes,"& it is work like a process in which employees & managers collaborate to set
goals. The main objective of the manager is on employees correspond with organizational
goals, and how success will be measured & evaluated are all decided together. MBO
technique considered that employees have a clear idea of what is expected of them, and
MBO permits them to engage in the process, which can improve communication and
motivation.
Assess methods for identifying individual training and developing needs
Training and development is considered as the most appropriate techniques which can useful to
improve the knowledge & abilities of the individuals so that they can work appropriately in the
organization and get a good opportunity for the growth. Training and development is a ongoing
technique which mainly utilize in order to to improve the growth level of the employees within
an organization. Health4All human resource manager is more concerned about their employees
and also so pay more attention on their newly hired and existing employees (Preece, 2017). HR
manager of the company provide effective and advanced level of training sessions to their newly
hired employees and provide experts advice and suggestions to their existing employees so that
they can effectively evolve their performance level. Health4All HR manager is utilize specific
methods which are helpful to identify requirement of training and development sessions for the
employees. The elaboration of all the specific methods are given below -
 Management observation - Through this method HR manager of the firm can
effectively provide task to the management department so that all the key participated
members of the management can appropriately and analyse the performance of the staff
members so that they can easily recognition the requirement of the training and
development sessions for the employees.
 Feedback system - This is also containing as the most prominent method which can be
clearly identify the current performance level of the workforce so that human resource

manager of the firm can appropriately that training and development sessions are
necessary for the employees or not.
. Highly potential leaders - The prime purpose of b companies is to to appoint highly
potential leaders so that they can actively participate and support their co-workers and
other staff members and also responsible to prepare their day to day record. Health4All
HR manager can access the record of the staff members and then review the performance
them which can help full to identify the requirement of identification of training &
development (Redmond, 2017). Assessment and survey - HR manager as utilized this method and also design a a
assessment form and conduct a small survey within an organization in order to identify
the exact mental state & prospective of the staff members which will helpful to analyse
the need of training and development session or not. Questionnaire - Through questionnaire method, it will make easy for the account
manager to identify the need of the training and development session. Health4All HR
manager formulates a questionnaire in order to to identify real performance and
productivity level of their staff members. Interview - interview is also containing as the most common tool and technique which
can easily the perfection and mental state of the workforce so that HR manager can
appropriately identify the need of training and development m
Analyse techniques for promoting continuous professional development in health and social care
HR manager of the organization can provide actively participation in the employees activities
and operations within an organization. HR manager of Health4All is utilizing various techniques
in order to promoting the continuous professional development of their workforce. Experts Participation - In order to promote the continuous professional development in
context of health and social care , HR manager of the company utilize this technique
which can help to improve their knowledge and experience level of the workforce with
the active participation of the experts. Health4All manager can hire an expert for their
workforce and also conduct a workshop and conference so that all the the staff members
can participate in that workshop & conference and improve their professional

development. ELT professionals are helpful to evolve the professional development of
individuals (Rüber, Rees and Schmidt-Hertha, 2018).
 F2F workshops. - Same to the above, but in context of ELT professionals that aren't
particularly well-known. Smaller, more exclusive workshops where educators can discuss
openly ideas and viewpoints, as well as take it away ideas for learning environment and
reflect on, are often more beneficial to the teachers.
 Participation of Online communities - participation in the online communities are
helpful to improve v professional development of the individuals so that they can
continuously focus on there growth level in order to get an appropriate of opportunity in
the health & social care sector like Health4All. Online communities providing
appropriate flexibility to the individuals so that they can effectively enhance their
knowledge and effectiveness as per their convenient time & place.
 Programmed action research - HR manager is liable to arrange program action plan so
that it will make more effective to improve the professional development of the
workforce on a continuous basis. Health4All HR manager conduct strategic management
process and determine specific strategy which can help full to prepare a specific program
actions. HR manager is also conduct small-scale to search related with the program action
plan as per to identify the responses of the key participated members in the company.
 Talking informally - This is also effective technique in order to promoting the
continuous professional development in an organization. Health4All manager issued
specific guidelines to their leaders in which all the leaders are responsible to talking with
staff members in an informal way so that leaders can easily determine the situation of the
the employees and prepare report and circulate to the HR manager and when manager can
effectively can prepare a strategy for the professional development of the individual.
Analyse the significance of cultural diversity to the Health and Social Care sector

The importance of cultural diversity is more because our workplaces, working environment,
department, institutions , coloration and nations increasingly considering the different types of
cultural and ethnic groups. Proper learning about the and other cultures and helpful to improve
the understanding about the people and their behaviour and also useful to identify the different
perspective of the individuals within an organization. There are two factors are involved in the
cultural diversity such as " In a workplace" and " In w School settings" all these factors are
containing multilingual teams and diverse various range of ages which are working together and
also considering the protocols of the the organization. In case of schools , variety of students
across the whole globe can part of the school and share different culture (Usak and et. al., 2020).
Significance of cultural diversity
 Identification of large amount of culture that exists - This is considered as the main
importance of the cultural diversity which can useful to recognition the large amount of
culture which exist. HR manager of the Health4All is liable to create specific strategy in
which manager can provide specific guidelines to their staff member related with the
organizational culture so that all the staff members can actively participate to fulfill the
requirements of the guideline. Each and every employees in the organization need to
respect the value and beliefs of the the another employees and work collectively.
 Respecting each other’s cultural differences - It is necessary for the staff members to
respect each and every person culture so that they can effectively make a strong
relationship with the other participated members in the organization. The importance of
cultural diversity is increasing in the organization because it can help full to create a good
healthy working environment at the workplace.
 Acknowledging that cultural expressions are valid - employees need to acknowledge
each and every cultural differences and also behave positively with each and every
person. Health4All employees are are continuously trying to respect the culture and
background and also acknowledge their cultural expressions.

 Empowering diverse groups - Cultural diversity is helpful to empowering the diverse
group so that all the participating members in the organization can easily empower
themselves and through their career development opportunities in contacts of Health and
care sector.
 Celebrating differences, not tolerating them - This is method is significance the culture
diversity in an organization. Health4All HR manager is actively analyse each and every
activities of their employees and also prepare and strategy so that all the staff members
can celebrate each and every employs cultural differences instead of tolerating them.
Explain the benefits of a culturally diverse workforce.
Cultural diversity is helpful to reduce the differences within an organization and lead the active
participation of the the workforce so that they can effectively perform their task & improve the
productivity level of Health4All organization. There are various benefits are identified by the HR
manager of the company in order to to improve the healthy work environment in the
organization. Explanation about the the various benefits of cultural diversity workforce are given
below -
 Improved productivity level - cultural diversity practices are helpful to improve the
productivity level of the workforce so that all the members can provide their best efforts
in order to to improve their own performance level which can lead the the long-term
sustainability of the Health4All organization in the market (Xing and Gao, 2018).
 Enhance creativity & employee engagement - this is also are main benefit of cultural
diversity for the workforce because it can help full to improve be creativity of the
workforce so that they can provide additional value in their working task. HR manager of
the Health4All is arrange training and development session so that all the employees can
improve their coordination level and maintain employee engagement consideration
effectively.

 Evolve the company reputation - Effective practices of cultural diversity can help full to
improve the reputation of the company at the whole market place. Health4All manager is
to implement cultural diversity effectively in order to improve the the brand value of the
company.
 Reduce the possibility of employees turnover - Cultural diversity e is helpful to to
reduce the possibility of the employee turnover in the company and improve the the
employee participation in their assign working roles and responsibilities.
Assess strategies for managing a diverse workforce.
Basically diversity management is needed as the organizational action which main purpose to
promote the the greater inclusion of the workforce from various background in the organizational
structure. HR manager of the company is mainly focus on the organizational goals and prepare
specific policies & programs so that manager can effectively manage the diverse workforce
within an organization. There are numerous strategies are considered by the HR manager of
Health4All which are discussed below - Strategic hiring - HR manager need to conduct an appropriate setting having process
which can useful to appoint high potential and talented workforce within an organization.
 Building effective policies & practices - with the help of effective policies and practices,
HR manager connectivity manage the diverse workforce within an organization. Through
effective implementation of of strategic policies, manager can appropriately improve the
engagement of employees.
 Arrange diversity training - HR manager can identify the whole environmental
situation within their addition and then take decision to arrange diversity training for their
work force and also provide experts advice (Gardner 2021).
 Improve communication - This is also considered as the most effective strategy which
can useful to managing the diverse workforce in an appropriate and systematic manner.

Proper communication in the Health4All magician reduce the possibility of
miscommunication.
 Encouragement of interaction - HR manager of the company need to encourage the
interaction among the workforce show that with the help of this strategy Health4All
employees can actively establish good interaction with each other which lead strong
support system.
Conclusion
On the basis of this adjustment related with the continuous professional development of the
individuals, it can be concluded that organization need to take an appropriate actions in order to
enhance the continuous development & lifelong learning opportunities for their workforce. This
report is also discussed benefits and techniques of promoting continuous professional
development and also identified specific Strategies and benefits related with the cultural diversity
for the workforce.

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