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Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success, 2nd Edition
edited by Bruce J. Fried, PhD, James A. Johnson, PhD, Myron Fottler, PhD

Hardbound, 370 pp
ISBN 1567932436
Health Administration Press
August 2005
Price: $88.00

 

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

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. James A. Johnson, Ph.D., is professor in the Dow College of Health Professions at Central Michigan University and is a visiting scholar at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Johnson's publications include 100 articles and nine books on a wide range of healthcare issues. He is past editor of ACHE’s Journal of Healthcare Management and currently serves on the scientific advisory board of the National Diabetes Trust Foundation.

Hardbound, 370 pp
ISBN 1567932436
Health Administration Press
August 2005
Price: $88.00

 

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

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.

(information from the publisher)

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