Nursing Jobs: Job Enrichment, Enlargement, and Recruitment Analysis

This report provides an in-depth analysis of nursing jobs, focusing on key aspects such as job enrichment strategies, including quality improvement, team mechanisms, and training. It explores job enlargement strategies, emphasizing work variation and employee engagement. The report also delves into HR planning and recruitment processes, considering factors influencing nurse recruitment and outlining external and internal recruitment strategies. Furthermore, it examines compensation and benefits, including direct compensation, total rewards, employee benefits, and flexible benefits programs, providing insights into the overall value and structure of nursing positions. The report references relevant literature to support its findings.

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Designing and analyzing nursing jobs
Nursing is an ideal job that that requires a lot of patience, mental stability and
perseverance. It cannot be considered as a mere job; rather it can be asserted that nursing is a
service to humankind. It is quintessentially a philanthropic approach. Getting into nurse jobs
requires establishing an emotional connection with the patients and with their family members. It
is an full time responsibility that requires to look into all the nook and corners that may affect the
patient like hygiene factors, maintaining quality of requirements, having strong communication
skills and adapting flexible schedule of work (Pournader, Tabassi & Baloh, 2015). The nurses
are also required to keep an optimistic approach towards all the issues that may crop up and build
up strong interpersonal skills. An ideal nurse dedicated towards his or her profession must have a
problem resolving attitude.
JOB ENRICHMENT STRATEGIES
A Particular job can be enriched in terms of quality emphasizing on the job opportunities,
strategic planning and controlling. Job enrichment also considers the factors like focusing on the
concept of self-monitoring, working in team mechanisms and enhancing knowledge by taking
training and development methods. Apart from that job rotation strategies also focuses on job
rotation and peer monitoring.
JOB ENLARGEMENT STRATEGIES
There are a number of strategies involved to enlarge a job sector. The most common way
to ensure the enlargement of job is enlarged by adding complex woks of similar kind to the
position (Duffield et al., 2014). Focusing at work variation and keeping the employees engaged
also enlarges the job. The other ways of enlarging a jobs are to make sure that the staffs attains

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training programs and at the same time it opportune the employees to have a taste of all the
variation of a single job.
HR PLANNING AND RECRUITMENT:
Certain factors affect the recruitment process of nurses in hospitals and health care
centers. A thorough environmental scanning of the same would critically evaluate the factors
affecting the hiring and recruitment of staffs. One of the major factor is labor market that invites
unnecessary applicants for a job role when the market is saturated. The negative and the positive
brand image of the hospitals also impacts on the recruitment process and the type of employees
chosen. Further, there are additional factors like political stability of the place, unemployment
rates and threat of competitors that influences the recruitment process.
The externally focused recruitment in the context of short term recruitment include processes
like Casual calling, directly recruiting, internship offers to schools, colleges and universities and
hiring of labor on contract basis (Hoffmann, Inderst & Opp, 2016). The long term recruitment on
the other hand includes strategies like hiring employees on recommendations, referrals, from
consultancy and from external agencies and firms.
External recruitment strategies: Its advantages to diversify workforce
External recruitment strategies are popular because it is unbiased, thus maximum diversity
can be maintained (Phillips & Gully, 2015). The other processes like casual calling and direct
recruitment allows all ethnicity and races to apply for the job. Internship recruitment from
schools and colleges ensures diversified work culture.
Total rewards: Direct compensation for Nursing Jobs

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The compensation philosophy is broadly dependent upon the payment practices and the
annual reviews of the company. The payment practices are unbiased and transparent that allows
professional advancement of the employees in particular area, thus attaining institutional goals
and objectives. The annual reviews on the other hand opportune the employees to work and
perform better. It acts as motivation to the employees.
Valuation of the job:
Nursing is less a job and more of a approach. It is an ever-positive approach to serve
humanity. The wages are not considered as the prime objective in this profession. It can be
regarded as the most profession without much of bribery and forgery scene.
Compensation package:
The compensation packages are designed in a way that rewards and gives recognition to the
employees, offers promotion to the deserving employees and other activities like team outing.
Base pay and variable pay:
Base and variable pay are the type of compensation package that companies uses to wage the
employees. The variation within the pay scale helps the company to mark the basic pay of the
employees and thus can alter the other variables of the entire salary.
Total rewards: Employee benefits and services:
Under voluntary benefits, the company offers medical insurance, health insurance, and
security insurance. The prime reason that company offers voluntary benefits to the employees is
employee security (Jessen, 2015). It induces an urge within applicants to join the company and
employees show better loyalty towards the company.

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Job related service:
In terms of Positive investment, certain program like training and development
processes are undertaken that trains the employees to execute their work in perfection. It
increases the production of the company and attracts more clients to the company.
Flexible benefits program:
Flexible benefits program is advantageous to the employer as it enables the employer to
satiate the need of the employees (Cascio, 2018). The employer can keep a complete control of
finance and the employer controls the employees. The recruitment process is also easier.

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