Introduction to People Management in NHS

MG411 Introduction To
People Management
Table of Contents

Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Leadership and Management...........................................................................................................3
Applicable theoretical models................................................................................................4
Training and Development..............................................................................................................5
Applicable theoretical models................................................................................................5
Talent Management.........................................................................................................................6
Applicable theoretical models................................................................................................6
Recommendations............................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
The management of employees who are working within the organisation by allocating
them relevant tasks as per the needs of business is defined as people management. Basically, this
involves managing human resources within the organisation through the utilisation of different
processes such as motivation, training & development, etc that will enable to direct employees
that will further enable them within maximisation of overall contribution towards attainment of
organisational goals (Armstrong and Taylor, 2020). NHS (National Health Service) will be
talked about in this report which is a publically funded healthcare system. The founding
principles of the firm was that the services will be universal, comprehensive as well as free when
they are being delivered by emphasising on health services depending on clinical requirements
rather than ability to pay. In year 2015-2016, within the four NHS outlets almost 1.6 million
people were employed along with budget of £136.7 billion. This report will provide an insight
into concept of leadership, management, training, development and talent management. Along
with this, respective models that can be utilised by management will also be illustrated so that
overall affirmative outcomes can be attained.
Leadership and Management
The art associated with motivating group of individuals for acting towards attainment of
identical goals is defined as leadership. In context of business settings, it implies furnishing
directions to human resources with the rationale to accomplish organisational requirements.
Within NHS, leader is accountable to inspire others as well as providing them with adequate
guidance while they are acting on the peculiar aspects. This enables to direct the efforts that are
made by the employees in precise directions that will further facilitate within attaining desired
standards of quality along with their objectives (Banfield, Kay and Royles, 2018). For this, it is
important for NHS that they must make use of effectual as well as efficient leadership theories or
models as per the clinical procedures so that overall outcomes can be amplified. Along with this,
leader also need to take into account inter personal skills that will lead to create a strong impact
on their colleagues as well as juniors through which it should become easy for them to deliver
their accountabilities. Any kind of situations can occur at any instance of time, thus, it is crucial
that, NHS opts for making use of models accordingly in order to make sure that conditions are
handled affirmatively.