Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach

Purpose and Audience

This book works as a comprehensive guide to the essential areas of health care human resources management by defining what each aspect of human resources addresses, why it is specifically essential to a health care organization, and then how it can be incorporated strategically using best practices and vanguard programs. This book particularly emphasizes the importance of HRM functions and SHRM planning balanced with the current and emergent dynamics apparent in the most important resource of a health care organization—its people.

This book was written to be an immediately useful practical handbook for practitioners as well as a textbook for use as part of health care management undergraduate and graduate programs. By infusing ...