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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Health Administration > Create a Positive Healthcare Workplace: Practical Strategies to Retain Today's Workforce and Find Tomorrow's

Create a Positive Workplace! Practical Strategies to Retain Today's Workforce and Find Tomorrow's
Jo Manion, PhD, RN, CNAA, FAAN

(You may also be interested in another book by this author: The Engaged Workforce: Proven Strategies to Build a Positive Health Care Workplace)

Hardcover: 450 pages  
ISBN 155648321X
Health Forum / AHA
July 2005
(click button below for the best current price on this book)

 

This book is written for individuals who are leaders, key stakeholders, managers or employees, who choose to evaluate their own leadership practice - and who are serious about undertaking the challenging work of creating or maintaining a positive work culture and environment.

“A stunningly helpful resource for all those enlightened health care managers and leaders who want to create and retain a vibrant and energized workforce. This book is both basic and comprehensive.” -- Norma R. Hagenow, R.N., M.B.A., President and CEO, Genesys Health System, Grand Blanc, MI

Recommended by the American Hospital Association, this new hard-working guide shows you how to develop strong retention practices rooted in documented research, gives you evidence-based strategies and helps you get results.

A major working premise of this book is that the possibility of a positive work environment only exists when there is an active and dynamic state of interdependence between the organization, manager and employee leaders. It recognizes that maintaining a vibrant workforce is a shared responsibility. Savvy leaders must understand and embrace their role in both recruiting and retaining employees and creating a positive and supportive organizational culture where everyone works in partnership. It is the interaction of the organization’s culture, managers, and employees that determines the workplace environment.

While many books focus on employee retention and the employee’s workplace experience, there is almost no literature that documents what strategies are most effective based on evidence-based practice. This book attempts to provide a more focused view of strategies that are proven through research. The book pulls together a broad range of study findings from a variety of fields (such as sociology, psychology, and organizational development) that relate to creating a positive workplace, and it presents them in an informative and immediately usable fashion. This approach offers a more substantial solution to the problem.

This book offers practical and comprehensive presentations of workplace interventions that influence the creation of a positive work environment. It focuses on efforts with the most likelihood of a pay off. Figures and tables are included to clarify concepts. At the end of every chapter is a list of questions to consider at the organizational, the leader, and the employee level that relate directly to the content provided in the chapter. These thought-provoking, challenging questions will stimulate insight and ideas for applying the content and concepts and taking the next action steps. Self-assessment tools help determine the level of support for innovation existing in the current work climate.

“Finally someone recognizes that each of us share responsibility for creating positive workplaces. This resource provides an excellent overview of strategies to assist health care organizations, leaders, and employees to develop high-commitment, high-retention work cultures.” -- Dennis Sherrod, Ed.D., R.N., Professor and Forsyth Medical Center, Endowed Chair of Recruitment and Retention, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC

“This book is unique in that it is evidence based, and focuses on behaviors and workplace culture.” -- Nancy Formella, M.S.N., R.N., C.N.A.A., Senior Nurse Executive, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

“This is a very timely book, particularly with regard to the emphasis on ‘tomorrow’s’ rather than ‘today’s’ workforce. No current book focuses enough on the challenges we are facing with the next generation of workers, and we ignore the differences at our own peril.” -- Kathy Gallo, Chief Learning Officer, North Shore – Long Island Jewish Health System, Great Neck, NY

“Complete, straightforward, and thought provoking, this book will definitely assist health care leaders in the work of employee retention. Employee turnover can be measurably improved by following this author’s proven strategies.” -- Clint Maun, C.S.P., Senior Partner, Maun-Lemke, LLC, Omaha, NE

“Here's a book that not only tells you why a positive workplace is so important, but how to get there as well.” - Pamela D. Paulk, M.S.W., M.B.A., Vice President, Human Resources, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Health System, Baltimore, MD

“A unique book. It challenges the organization, the leader, and the employee to share responsibility for creating the culture of retention. Every organization, every leader, and every employee needs this book!” -- Nancy Formella, M.S.N., R.N., C.N.A.A., Senior Nurse Executive, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

Current and pending workforce shortages top the list of concerns of health care executives. How do you get good people? How do you keep good people? And, as importantly, how do you keep existing employees fully engaged and committed to their work and the organization? Create a Positive Health Care Workplace! offers answers to these questions. This book avoids the “treats and trinkets” approaches of appreciation and recognition programs and presents ideas that will help you break through the frustrating cycle of effectively recruiting people barely fast enough to replace valued departing employees.

Jo Manion, Ph.D., R.N., C.N.A.A., F.A.A.N. wrote the best-selling From Management to Leadership for AHA Press. Her experience as a nurse and former association executive, well-known consultant and speaker to 8,000+ people per year, and the author of a recent dissertation on the positive workplace, make her uniquely qualified to write this book.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends. The Health Forum was created in the fall of 1998 through the union of The Healthcare Forum and the American Hospital Association's publishing and data and information subsidiaries.

Hardcover: 450 pages  
ISBN 155648321X
Health Forum / AHA
July 2005
(click button below for the best current price on this book)

 

This book is written for individuals who are leaders, key stakeholders, managers or employees, who choose to evaluate their own leadership practice - and who are serious about undertaking the challenging work of creating or maintaining a positive work culture and environment.

You may also be interested in the AHA Guide, the leading directory of hospitals and healthcare systems, also published by AHA.

(information about this book has been provided by the publisher)

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