Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach

Composition of a Progressive Health Care Human Resources Management Department

A health care human resources management department should include professionals in several essential areas (see Figure 1.4). As mentioned earlier in this chapter, a favorite cliché in health care circles is “doing more with less—to the point of doing everything with nothing”—a bromide that can well apply to health care human resources management departments. It is not uncommon to see a complete human resources staff of fifteen members, including administrative and secretarial help, for a community health care organization of over two thousand employees. Although that ratio might represent a norm in health care, one would be hard-pressed to find a similar ratio in ...