Human Resources Activities and Relationships

Human Resource Activities and Relationships
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Human Resource Activities and Relationships
Employee scarcity like nursing shortages is a massive problem in healthcare since nurses play a significant role in providing first-hand services to patients leading to improved health outcomes. HR specialists must deal with employee shortages by employing innovative ways of hiring and retaining the best professionals. The hiring of nurses and other professionals requires that HR department uses a criterion that identifies potential employees with particular talents and skills needed in a job vacancy. HR specialists also address the workers shortage by formulating better financial incentives that are not tied to salary to attract qualified employees. Additionally, HR specialists retain the best professionals by ensuring that employees have a work-life balance to guarantee that they are comfortable while working in an organization. HR managers also use professional social networks such as LinkedIn to connect with qualified candidates. Referrals also allow the HR department to get the best possible candidates for certain jobs (Turner, 2017).
Retaining good employees and deferring employee turnover necessitates specific skill sets for leaders and managers operating in the hospital setting. Leaders and managers must be great communicators and have excellent interpersonal skills. These skills help leaders and managers to interact well with nurses and other healthcare professionals to realize their problems and address them early before it becomes a reason for employee turnover.

Leaders and managers must good at motivating and inspiring employees to ensure that they continue to have the desire to work in an organization. Leaders and managers need to be able to stimulate innovation by encouraging employees to bring their different perspectives to the company. Innovation allows employees to feel valued and appreciated for their effort (Turner, 2017). Leaders and managers need to possess technical skills that enable them to provide training and coaching that allows employees to have the wisdom to excel in the industry. Managers and leaders need to show professionalism in their work which inspires employees to be honest, professional and ethical in their work.
Reference
Turner, P. (2017). Talent Management in Healthcare: Exploring How the World’s Health Service Organisations Attract, Manage and Develop Talent. Springer.