St. Patrick's Nursing Home: Human Resource Management Report

This report analyzes human resource management within the healthcare sector, using St. Patrick's Nursing Home as a case study. It begins by examining factors in recruitment planning, including financial resources and staff eligibility, and how legislative frameworks influence the selection process. The report then explores team dynamics, including various team interactions and approaches to foster effective teamwork, such as strong leadership and communication. Performance monitoring methods are discussed, alongside strategies for identifying training needs and promoting continuous development. Finally, the report delves into leadership theories applicable to healthcare, management of working relationships, and the influence of management approaches on personal development. The report covers various aspects of HRM including recruitment and selection, training, performance appraisal, and team dynamics within the healthcare setting.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Factors to be considered when planning recruitment of individuals to work in health and
social care...............................................................................................................................1
1.2 Ways in which relevant legislative and policy frameworks of the home country influence
the selection, recruitment and employment of individuals.....................................................2
1.3 Different approaches that may be used to ensure selection of best individuals for work in
health and social care..............................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Theories of how individuals interact in groups in relation to types of teams that work in
health and social care..............................................................................................................3
2.2 approaches that may be used to develop effective team working in health and social care
................................................................................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
3.1ways in which the performance of individuals working in health and social care can be
monitored................................................................................................................................5
3.2 Ways to identify individual training and development needs..........................................5
3.3 Different strategies for promoting the continuing development of individuals in the health
and social care workplace.......................................................................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
4.1 theories of leadership that apply to the health and social care workplace........................7
4.2 Ways in which working relationship are managed...........................................................8
4.3 Ways in which own development has been influenced by management approaches
encountered in own experience..............................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Productivity of an organization depends on efficiency of employees and operational
management. Health services are one of the fundamental sectors of the society. It aims to provide
curative and rehabilitative care to patients with optimum level of services. There are three
components of the health care: Human resources, physical capital and consumables. Proper
management of human resources is a deciding factor for quality health care. In order to deliver
health services, management takes into consideration various aspects of clinical and non-clinical
staff such as their recruitment and selection, training, performance appraisal and other factors.
Present report is prepared to elucidate the management of human resources in organizations. For
that purpose, health and social care unit St. Patrick's Nursing home is taken into account.
TASK 1
1.1 Factors to be considered when planning recruitment of individuals to work in health and
social care
For successful health care system, properly trained and competent staff is essential. While
planning to appoint eligible and capable staff in the organization, following factors are to be kept
in consideration: Requirement: Fundamental step considering the management plans recruitment and
selection of staff. By scrutinizing the number of existing employees, vacancy of
employees are determined (Cooper, 2007). Financial resources: Both number and cost of managing human resources are key
concern of employer while recruiting employees. The organizations are both Government
funded and also use employer-paid system. To get appropriate supply of trained staff this
attribute is also taken into account. Eligibility: Health care sector is an industry in which service providers are closely linked
with patients and vulnerable people to provide them intimate care. To attain the
efficiency, equity and quality objectives, skillful, knowledgeable and experienced
employees are hired. Employees with desired qualification such as associate degree in
medical are hired (Day, 2007).
 Competency: With the advancement in technology, there is the paradigm shift in process
adopted in cure and treatment of the patients. New equipment and methods are being
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used. For that purpose, staff with the respective competency is required that possess
knowledge of working with those equipment. Further, for purposes like assisting
professional and doctors in their treatments and giving proper care to patients, the
applicants are required to be competent.
1.2 Ways in which relevant legislative and policy frameworks of the home country influence the
selection, recruitment and employment of individuals
Government and legislative bodies frame laws and regulations in their countries to ensure
the protection of employees and consumers in various aspects. ST Patrick's Nursing Home
abides all the laws framed by the agencies. By following all these rules and regulations, the
nursing home intends to give equal services and opportunities irrespective of social, economic
and cultural background. It imparts significant impact on functioning and strategy framed by the
management to run the organization (Holyoak, 2003). 1978 Uniform Guidelines on Employees Selection procedures: The law is framed to
ensure that recruitment process adopted by St. Patrick's Nursing home withstand the
validation tests with proper use of the procedure.
 Civil Rights Act of 1964: This law ensures that while pursuing the recruitment process,
there is no discrimination made on the grounds of race, color, sex, religion or national
origin. It also prohibits the discrimination of any kind in the practices, procedures and the
policies of the organization.
 Abiding the laws of equal pay act 1963 and fair labor standards, the organization fulfills
legal parameters such as non discrimination in payment on the basis of gender and
ensures that employees are provided with minimum salary and other work conditions
which they are entitled to as per the legal norms (King and Lawley, 2012).
 St. Patrick's nursing home embraces diversity among work culture by encouraging non
discrimination in recruitment and appointment of the candidates. It leads to enhancement
of productivity and efficiency of the organization.
1.3 Different approaches that may be used to ensure selection of best individuals for work in
health and social care
In order to recruit most eligible and suitable employees, different approaches are used by
St. Patrics organization (Martin, 2005). Adopting following approaches, optimum selection can
be ensured:
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 By adopting rigorous method of selection that is creating the specified job Performa with
description of the job profile, job description and person's specification, capable
candidate from the pool of applicants can be selected. Further, after selecting eligible
applicants, capability of candidates is tested by series of interview by different managers
of varied department. Through this, various attributes of the candidates can be tested
(Robbins, 2009).
 Along with the conventional method of the selection, the candidates are required to give
the practical test which judges their abilities to give care to the patients.
 Clinical and non-clinical staff of the health care institute is endowed with number of tasks
such as assisting professional doctors, keeping the record of patient's data, addressing the
needs and requirement of patients without any delays and they are also required to take
some decision in lack of supervision at the time of emergency. All these qualities are
needed to be possessed by the applicants (Ruiz, 2004).
TASK 2
2.1 Theories of how individuals interact in groups in relation to types of teams that work in
health and social care
In a health sector organization like St Patrick's nursing home, tasks and works are
distributed among clinical and non-clinical staff. The teams are made by assigning them the
specific task to achieve defined targets and goals. These teams work under the supervision of the
managers. Ways of interaction and coordination differ with respect to the teams and groups. In
each team and group there is different way of process adopted due to the difference in the nature
of targets and tasks. Following are the ways in which team can interact with each other:
 Team with clinical staff includes nursing section who are directly involved in care and
treatment of the patients. In this team, the horizontal conversation is informal in nature
but the vertical conversation in the form of receiving orders and instructions is formal in
nature (Schermerhorn and et.al, 2011).
 Team which includes the board of directors and the management team frame the policies
and strategies by analyzing complete scenario of the organization. In this, the interaction
is formal where the members share their opinions and ideas to bring improvement in
services and profitability of the organization.
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 Multidisciplinary team is the one in which the people with diverse professional
background work together to improve the patient care by working together and discussing
alternative and competing perspectives.
2.2 approaches that may be used to develop effective team working in health and social care
Effective team work helps in increasing the efficiency of the employees and also reduces
the levels of stress. Realizing the importance of working together as a team, the organization
encourages the team building.
 Strong leadership: Working in health and social care organization is a continuous job
which demands high level of energy and preciseness. Under the absence of strong leader,
management runs in a haphazard manner and creates stressful environment which further
affects the productivity and services provided to clients. New CEO is appointed to bring
wave of new energy by clearly stating the objectives and goals and supervising the teams
(Shapira, 2002).
 Communication: By promoting effective communication in team, efficiency can be
enhanced. Better coordination among employees brings innovative and creative ideas for
care of patients and resolves problems easily in an optimum manner.
 Motivation and inspiration: To drive the better results and optimum level of performance
of the employees, the manager adopts certain methods to motivate and inspire them such
as Herzberg model and Maslow model benefits in keeping the employee's spirit high and
making them dedicated towards work (McGinnis, n.d.).
 Grievances readdress: In every organization, employees faces some issues and problems.
By addressing their disputes and conflicts in the efficient manner, it encourages the team
work.
 To motivate the members of the organization, the manager gives them the task to
accomplish in the specific time frame. This enhances the coordination and the degree of
trust among the employees (Einarsen, Aasland and Skogstad, 2007).
 Working together and achievement of tasks increases their trust and motivates them to
work with more dedication and stay longer.
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TASK 3
3.1ways in which the performance of individuals working in health and social care can be
monitored
Each individual working in the health and social sector are given certain duties and
responsibilities to perform. The productivity of the organization depends on efficiency of the
employees. For that purpose, measuring performance is the essential component of the
management. Work of employees is assessed differently in terms of quality and quantity by
using different tools.
 The management assigns different works and responsibilities to employees. The
performance of the employees can be assessed by comparing the given goals and targets
against targets achieved in the quantitative terms.
 It is evaluated by checking records kept by the staff with respect to the details of patients
and the degree of accuracy and promptness in assisting the professional doctors (Bloisi,
Cook and Hunsaker, 2007).
 Staff fundamental duty is to take care of patient's needs and requirement. They are
required to provide them with the intimate care to give them the best treatment and
optimum care. To evaluate their performance in terms of the services provided by them,
the evaluators seek feedback from the patients and the family members who are attending
them for 24 hours.
 Staff including nurse's has prime duty to assist their doctors in their treatments and follow
their guidance precisely and sincerely. Also, they need to assess the feedbacks from their
respective doctors and kept the record of same.
3.2 Ways to identify individual training and development needs
Identifying development and training needs is the fundamental step to increase efficiency
of the employees and also enhance the productivity of the organization. This is also essential to
provide better patient care by removing the flaws in management and working (Hooke, 2007).
Following are the steps involved in identifying training and development needs:
 Evaluating business goals: Evaluating organization’s objectives and business goals helps
in identifying the training and development needs of the individuals.
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 Monitoring the quality of performance: The assessment of the performance of the
individuals in different perspectives and on the qualitative and quantitative aspects helps
in realizing the gaps between assigned tasks and the targets achieved. This brings
awareness among the employers to minimize the gaps and conduct training and
development sessions to enhance skills and talents of the employers by adopting different
methods and ways (Robbins and et.al, 2013).
 Scrutinizing the individual's traits: One of the most effectual methods to realize the need
of the training and development of the individual is scrutinizing of the traits of the
employees. It is done through the SWOT analysis. In this, the strengths of the employers
in the particular is field is identified so that they can be assigned task in the related field.
Adopting this method also helps in realizing the problem domain so that it can be
addressed and treated well by the employers.
 By closely measuring the performance and the traits of the individual, the training and
development need of the employees is identified and then the effective methods are used
to address the problem domains.
3.3 Different strategies for promoting the continuing development of individuals in the health
and social care workplace
The continuous advancements in the technology have also trickled down its positive
impact in the health sector in the form of improving the ways of treatment and cure. To match
pace with the continuous growth in the health sector and provide better services to their patients,
the continuous development of the staff is essential. For that purpose, the management adopts
these strategies:
 The frequent performance appraisals helps the management to check the proficiency level
of the employees and it further identifies the productivity of the organization.
 In order to increase the adaptability with the new advanced equipment and to enhance
their knowledge and skills, the organization conducts many training programs and
development sessions. It helps them to acquire better understanding of resources which
they are using (Guest, 2004).
 By conducting the counseling and mentoring by the expertise and specialists in the field.
It guides and motivates the employees for the better career progression. It also provides
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them training for the better connectivity with the patients so that they can understand the
needs and requirements of the vulnerable and patients for better care and treatment.
 Conducting the apprenticeships, seminars and conferences gives exposure to the
employees towards the advanced section in the same field. It enables them to learn and
use technology such as advarnced equipment and high tech methods.
 Inspiring from the Maslow’s and Herzberg's motivation theory, the organization seeks
development by motivating and inspiring employees by using different methods such as
increasing their wages and salary and providing them with better work culture. These
factors contribute significantly in the development.
 Performance based payment is the effectual method adopted by the organization to
improve efficiency and bring development in their work. When the incentives and
rewards are given to employees for their achievements, the employees get motivated to
improve their skills and talents.
TASK 4
4.1 theories of leadership that apply to the health and social care workplace
Health and social care undergo different situations and managers are required to adopt
different leadership models to process operational management effectively and drive better
results. Different leadership models used by manager using pragmatic approach help in resolving
problems and handles effectively.
 Behavioral theory: According to this theory, the leaders possess different behavior and
attitude with respect to implementation of the tasks and undergoing the duties and
responsibilities as a leader (Neville, Bell and Mengüç, 2005). As mentioned in the
scenario of St Patrick's nursing home, this situation was not under the control of the
leader. Employee turnover was increasing considerably, profits was decreasing, the
complaints from the patients and their family members was increasing in the fast pace
which was affecting the goodwill and the image of the organization. Difference in the
behavior brings changes in execution of the tasks and works. The theory applied in the
mentioned case depicts applicability with the change in the leader that is changing CEO
(Firth, 2013).
 Situational theory: It refers to adoption of different leadership style by the single leader in
the different situation to drive better results and adapt in the existing scenario. For
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instance as a new CEO, to run the organization effectively the transaction leadership style
is used. This leadership styles involves employees and their opinions by assigning them
the specific task to accomplish (Watson and Korczynski, 2011). At the time when
organization fails to address the needs of the patients and their family members,
management uses the participative leadership model which means that with the
involvement of the opinion and ideas of the employee’s better strategies can be framed
to give optimum care. In this way, management uses transformation leadership style to
bring change and Laissez faire at the crucial times.
4.2 Ways in which working relationship are managed
Degree and health of the relation constructs between the employees of different level in
the organization impacts the efficiency and the productivity in the significant manner. To
manage the working relationship is the crucial task and for that various effective steps are
inculcated in the process (Chandan, 2004).
 After employing eligible and capable employees in the organization, the required to
undertake training and development process. In this step, along with assigning them with
job and duties, they make familiar with the values and principles of the organization on
which the organization is working. Effective execution of this step creates foundation of
better work culture.
 Encouraging team work: To manage the relationship among the employees in the
horizontal manner, the team work is encouraged so that the values such as the trust,
honesty, cooperation and coordination develops among the employees. This results in
increasing productivity of the organization (Cennamo and Gardner, 2008).
 Resolution of problems: By addressing the issues of the employees and resolving their
problems and disputes, the vertical relation between employer and employee is
maintained.
4.3 Ways in which own development has been influenced by management approaches
encountered in own experience
Undergoing the various management approaches has brought significant development in
various aspects of the personality. These developments are considerably seen in these three
aspects:
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 Leadership: Adopting situational approach theory and the pragmatic way of leadership
has developed sense of applicability in me. This has also enhanced my skills to pursue it
effectively (Carmeli, 2005).
 Team work: Adopting different team building models has developed the effective team
work attribute in me.
 Recruitment: To appoint the most suitable and eligible applicant I have adopted the
rigorous method of recruitment. This has enabled me to increase efficiency of the
organization significantly (Dredge, 2006).
CONCLUSION
From the present report it can be concluded that management of the human resources
effectively leads to enhance quality of the patient care. Considering various components such as
effective recruitment training, development and leadership drives to better performance and
result in increased productivity. St. Patrick's nursing home brought the paradigm shift in the
operational and human resource management. By adopting the rigorous method of recruitment
and selection, the organization has hired suitable employees to offer personalized and thoughtful
services (Schermerhorn and et.al., 2011). Further, the use of different leadership theories and
application motivational theories has helped the management in penetrating positive changes
which has trickled down in improving the patient care. It has also enhanced the productivity in
the curative measures and treatment adopted by the management.
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