Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success

Hardbound, 544 pp
ISBN 1567932991
978-1567932997
Health Administration Press
August 2008
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This resource presents the techniques and practices behind effectively managing people - the healthcare industry’s most important asset.

"Fried and Johnson have assembled a diverse group of experienced authors who present both conceptual and pragmatic approaches to managing people. Unlike previous literature that simply catalogs human resources management questions and problems, this book addresses the processes of identifying employees and enhancing their skills to become organizational assets more valuable than any technology." -Harry A. Nurkin, Ph.D., FACHE, President and CEO, Carolinas HealthCare System

This book provides you with the concepts and practical tools necessary for meeting the unique challenge of managing healthcare employees. It covers the fundamental topics such as performance management and employee rights, as well as more timely issues such as nurse workload management and managing diversity. Topics covered include:

Recruitment and selection
Job analysis and job design
Performance management
Physician compensation
Employee and employer rights
Health workforce planning, nurse staffing and workload
Diversity issues and developing diversity programs
Human resources budgeting and productivity analysis
The unionization of physicians and nurses
Strategies for retaining valuable staff

Recommended by ACHE, this book presents all of the concepts and practical tools necessary for a manager to create a successful, customer-focused workforce in healthcare. Contents of this book cover these areas:

Strategic Human Resources Management
Workforce Planning
Health Professions
Human Resources Law
Diversity
Job Analysis
Recruitment, Selection, Retention
Training
Performance Management
Compensation
Health and Safety
Unions
Nurse Workload Measurement
Human Resources Budgeting
Customer Focus
Future of Human Resources

This edition includes:

An expanded chapter on health and safety in the workplace, highlighting disaster preparedness and management
A new chapter on globalization and the mobile workforce
A new chapter focusing on employee benefits and benefit design An expanded chapter on training and career development
A new section containing complex cases
Chapters include cases, discussion questions, and exercises
Covers fundamental topics as well as timely issues

You may view these excerpts:

table of contents (pdf)
preface (pdf)

This resource presents the techniques and practices behind effectively managing people - the healthcare industry’s most important asset.

Bruce J. Fried, Ph.D., is associate professor and director of the residential master's degree program in the department of health policy and administration in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has written numerous journal articles, book chapters, commentaries, and book reviews. Dr. Fried is also coeditor of and contributor to World Health Systems: Challenges and Perspectives.

Myron D. Fottler, Ph.D., is professor and executive director of programs in health services administration at the University of Central Florida. He has written and published more than 100 journal articles and 14 books. He serves on several editorial review boards and is a founding coeditor of Advances in Health Care Management.

Founded in 1933, the American College of Healthcare Executives is an international professional society of 30,000 healthcare executives who lead our nation's hospitals, healthcare systems, and other healthcare organizations. ACHE is known for its prestigious credentialing and educational programs and its annual Congress on Healthcare Management, which draws more than 4,000 participants each year. ACHE is also known for its journal, the Journal of Healthcare Management, and magazine, Healthcare Executive, as well as ground-breaking research and career development and public policy programs. ACHE's publishing division, Health Administration Press, is one of the largest publishers of books and journals on all aspects of health services management in addition to textbooks for use in college and university courses.

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