Nursing Job Analysis and Design: Compensation and Benefits

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of a nursing job, encompassing job analysis, design, and recruitment strategies. It explores key aspects such as establishing emotional connections with patients, maintaining hygiene, and fostering strong communication skills. The report delves into job enrichment and enlargement strategies, highlighting the importance of training, job rotation, and employee engagement. Furthermore, it examines HR planning and recruitment, including environmental scanning, external and internal recruitment strategies, and the significance of total rewards, encompassing compensation packages, employee benefits, and training programs. The report emphasizes the value of a flexible benefits program and its advantages for both employers and employees, supported by relevant references.

NURSING: AN IDEALISM
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JOB ANALYZING AND DESIGNING
Establishing emotional connection with
the patient
Maintaining hygiene and cleanliness
Being supportive towards the families of
patients
Ensuring the maintenance of quality care
Having strong communication skills
Adapting flexible schedule of work
Building up strong interpersonal skills
Maintaining problem resolving attitude

JOB ENRICHMENT STRATEGIES
Enrichment strategies are based on
emphasizing on job opportunities, strategic
planning and controlling (Duffield et al., 2014).
Self monitoring
Works in team mechanisms
Focuses on knowledge enhancement by
training anfd development method
Focuses on job rotation and peer mentoring
Adheres to employee suggestion sessions

JOB ENLARGEMENT STRATEGIES
Job can be enlarged by adding complex woks
of similar kind to the position
Focusing at work variation
Focusing at keeping employees engaged
Staffs attains cross training
Makes an opportunity for the staff to taste
different strata of same job

HR PLANNING AND RECRUITMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING: ASSESSING FACTORS
THAT IMPACTS RECRUITMENT
Labor market: External condition like surplus man
power at the time of recruitment invites unnecessary
applicants for the job role.
Brand image: Positive image would encourage
applicants whereas negative image would refrain
applicants from applying the vacant position (Cascio,
2018).
Instability of Political environment
 Unemployment rates
Threat of competitors

Externally focused recruitment
strategy: Short term recruitment
Casual calling
Directly recruiting
Internship offers to schools, colleges and
universities
Hiring of labor on contract basis.

Externally focused recruitment strategy:
Long term recruitment
Hiring employees on recommendations
Hiring labors on referrals (Phillips & Gully,
2015)
Hiring employees from consultancy firms
Hiring employees from external agencies
and firms

External recruitment strategies: Its
advantages to diversify workforce
External recruitment strategies are
unbiased, thus, external agencies and
firms can be majorly considered
(Hoffmann, Inderst & Opp, 2016).
Recruitment based on 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 job
Compensation philosophy
Payment practices: The payment
practices are unbiased and transparent
that allows professional advancement of
the employees in particular area, thus
attaining institutional goals and
objectives.
Annual reviews: It offers an opportunity
to the employees to come across the
performances of the company.

Valuing the worth of the job
Nursing is a noble profession
It makes an individual humble by nature and
philanthropic from within
It is a service to mankind
Salary comes second in this profession
Professional ethics are given prime
importance
One of the noblest profession that is clean
without the dirt of politics or forgery

Compensation package
Rewards and recognition to employees
Providing promotion opportunities to
employees
Holiday packages for employees
Taking employees out on for meal

Base pay and variable pay
This compensation package have base pay
and variable pay.
 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.
For instance, if the basic pay is $10,000 and
the gross is $12000 that includes incentives,
bonus and cash against attendance, the
company can manipulate in times of crisis to
maintain the revenue.
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