Essays on Staff

Staffing and volunteers

The Christmas ball event will need to be planned in a manner that will enable proper alignment and staffing process. No matter what a business does, finding the right staffing level can be a challenging task. If you hire too many staff in an organization you will suffer from high costs with many workers doing nothing. If you hire to few people, the workers will be stressed and overworked and the productivity of the Company will be greatly affected(Schobernd et al. 2009).
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This paper looks at the human resource (HR) activities of Northrop Grumman and how these human resource activities are aligned with the strategic plan of the organization. Northrop Grumman is a multinational company that has presence in Aerospace systems, Electronic systems, information systems and technical services. The company mission is “to be at the forefront of technology and innovation, delivering superior capability in tandem with maximized cost efficiencies” (www.northropgrumman.com).
The purpose of human resource department in an organization is to ensure that the organization obtains and retains the skilled, committed and well-motivated employees according to its needs. Northrop Grumman Continue reading...

Background

Assessment of staff is an important task for the success of any organization (Bob, 2007, p. 82). In a world that is always growing and developing new skills, every organization ought to train its staff to adapt to changes in their field (Mathis & Jackson, 2010, p. 261). In the medical field, change is the only constant aspect. Large amounts of money are invested every year by a multitude of organizations into research of all kinds of medical fields. Better treatments, procedures, medications and equipment are coming into operation every day. There has been an increase in sensitivity to Continue reading...

Introduction

Employee Development
Employee development is an on-going, joint endeavor on the part of employees and the company for upgrading the employee's skills, knowledge and capabilities (Michie and Sheehan, 2005). Effective employee development calls for a balance amid a person’s career requirements and objectives as well as the company’s need for getting the task accomplished (Howard, 1995). Employee development initiatives make constructive contribution towards organizational outcome. A highly accomplished workforce could attain more and the employers could attain more as staff members gain in knowledge and experience. Additionally, retaining employees saves a large amount of company’s resources Continue reading...

Abstract

The paper covers the whole concept of seniority in the work place from different perspective. To start with, the paper introduces and defines the term seniority where it is shown as the longevity of service that a person renders to an organization. The paper reviews the manner in which seniority affects the various decisions that the top management of the organization are reached. For instance, the top management considers employment decision with regard to seniority. In the paper, how vacations are given to the different employees in the organization is also analyzed and how training among other things are Continue reading...

Part 1

Prison suicide is recognized as a serious yet underrated problem. In the United States, suicide is two times more common among prison inmates than in the general population (Arnaut, 2010). It is estimated that 200 prison suicides happen every year in the US (Suto & Arnaut, 2010). It is the third leading cause of deaths in the U.S. prisons after natural causes and AIDS (Metzner, 2002). The suicide rate in U.S. federal prisons is lower than the nationwide average (Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2012).

According to White, Schimmel & Frickey (2002), the prison suicide rate is often compared with the commonly Continue reading...

Behavioral emergencies on a non-psychiatric unit

Introduction
- 1dentifying possible causes of the staff's problem applying FOCUS model
- Find the process improvement based on the given scenario
- Organize a Team That Knows the Process
- Clarify Current Knowledge of the Process
- Understand Causes of Process Variation
- Improvement to ensure appropriate response times and appropriate clinical interventions in the given situation, using a modified version of the PDCA model (PDC).
- Plan (development of a plan to address the situation and possible risk in the future
- Do – explanation of the implementation process
- Check – explanation of the evaluation process
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Abstract

Leadership is a very important aspect of an organization that influences the success or otherwise, of an organization. While other factors may affect the success of the company, leadership is one such factor that has been largely ignored. In 1939, a group of researchers under the leadership of Kurt lewin researched on the different styles of leadership and came out with three specific types of leadership styles that are explained below (Howell & Hall-Merenda, 2002). In their study, three groups of children were assigned to an autocratic, democratic and a Leissez faire or delegative leader and the children were then Continue reading...

Implementation of a Patient Fall Prevention Program

There are a number of steps to be followed to implement the patient fall prevention program. Nurses would first need to address the issue to the administrators and hospital staff. It is the duty of the nurse to communicate with the administrative staff about the serious consequences of patient falls in the healthcare setting. Apart from getting approval from administration for implementing the program, nurse would have to deal with a number of healthcare-associated issues to commence the implementation of the program. (ACSQHC, 2009).
Operationalizing a patient fall prevention program to prevent patient falls involves a number of steps. Continue reading...

Introduction

Prisons comprise of all types of inmates, both social and anti-social inmates. The anti-social inmates develop behavior that lacks respect for other people and may have adverse effects on the society. Anti-social inmates often have an anti-social personality disorder that involves socially irresponsible, guiltless, and exploitative behavior. With this type of behavior, the anti-social inmates tend to manipulate the staff in prisons and their fellow inmates. They develop this behavior due to depression, substance abuse, domestic violence, or psychosocial impairment. The outcome of this behavior is often the anti-social inmates committing suicide or they constantly disturb in prisons. Continue reading...

Part 1

The concept of using staff meetings is a good strategy for creating the questionnaire in the organization. Completing a questionnaire using staff meetings gives the members a sense of involvement in the planning. The questionnaire can initiate ideas for discussion or ask the staff members to prioritize the topics to be addressed. This method can help to jump-start discussion and interaction at the opening of the staff meeting. The questionnaire act as pre-work that pays real dividends in making staff meetings educational and dynamic for all parties involved. Using staff meetings to create the questionnaire provides the right environment Continue reading...

Strategic planning is an essential aspect in health care organization as it helps realize the potential of the visions they aim at achieving. It also helps strengthen the organizations service by providing sufficient management and governance strategies that are needed to respond to the rapid and dramatic changes in today’s health care environment. The main achievement in realizing the strategic agendas is that it helps assess current strategies and make changes that facilitate response to the market and industry forces. It also helps in developing plans to achieve strategic goals and objectives. In addition, it helps ensure that Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate the processes involved in Human Resource Management (HRM) at Corniche Hospital in Abu Dhabi. In order to do so, the organization’s HR department would be taken into consideration which will provide relevant insights regarding the hospital and its workforce management. Moreover, the types of jobs at the hospital would also be analyzed as it would provide necessary information regarding the job description and specification. The processes that would be involved in the study are recruitment, selection, compensation, performance appraisal, training and development.

CORNICHE HOSPITAL IN ABU DHABI

Corniche Hospital is the largest maternity Continue reading...

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Lateness can be a thorny disciplinary issue in any organization. Whichever way you look at it, it’s likely to have negative impact on the performance of any company. The lateness that has become the tendency of Frank for the last three weeks needs to be checked before it gets into the other members of staff. My next course of action as Frank’s employer would be informed by two issues. First of all, I would consider the nature of franks work, whether its satisfactory or not, secondly, I would consider whether it is told he first time Continue reading...

Abstract

Blink brow bar operates in the service industry where is offers plenty of services to its clients. The luxury services offered serve a variety of clients with specific needs. The service provider has a distinct promise to the clients. This paper addresses various aspects concerning the level of service provision. This will edge towards the company’s promises to the clients as stated in the goals and objective statement of the business. The company has a special promise to its clients, which involves serving them appropriately by ensuring provision of beauty services for affordable terms. The service provider employs Continue reading...

Part 1: Group dynamics3Section 1: Working in groups and team.3

Section 2: Conflict and negotiation.5
Section 3: Management and leadership.6
Part 2: The organization system.7Section 1: Organization structure7
Part 2: The organization system.9Section 1: Organization structure..9

Section 3: HR policies & practices11

Conclusion...12

References13

Introduction
Group dynamics in organizations revolve around the relations between employees and managers and how they interact in groups. These groups and teams may be formal or informal, and they may be set for specific tasks or for general tasks. Group dynamics determine the chances of success of an organization as far as team work is concerned. In this paper, Wal-Mart is the organization for the study. This multinational is the largest Continue reading...

1) Title: Improving the Knowledge and Practice of Resident-Centered Nutrition: Nursing Home Staff and Resident Outcomes
2) What specifically are you looking to find out?
I intend to explore the effect of resident-centered nutrition education on the knowledge levels of the staff and actual nutrition practices as well as resident outcomes. My hypothesis is that staff education will improve knowledge and practices that will also translate to better resident outcomes. The independent variable is staff education while the primary dependent variables are staff knowledge of person-centered nutrition and nutrition practices. Secondary dependent variables or outcomes include the residents’ food Continue reading...

Introduction

In order to ensure quality in patient safety and patient care, appropriate efforts should be taken to develop appropriate nurse to patient ratio for the nursing staff. Staffing is the management activity that provides suitable and adequate personnel to fulfill the organization’s objective (Grohar-Murray & Langan, 2011). Staffing pattern plays an important role in the quality of care that nurses provide. It is important in the improvement of patient care because it allows management to hire and have an acceptable number of personnel that can provide quality and proper care to the patients.
It has been recognized that there Continue reading...

Summary:

In Michael Blanding’s article, “The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters,” the function and the role of a corporate headquarter is emphasized. It illustrates that coordination in an office or organizational work is very important and that the headquarter houses the whole operations of the enterprise in a more efficient manner. The explicit knowledge of the activities of each of the organizational department is very crucial to the maximum performance of the company. This only happens when there is a corporate headquarter. It integrates the works of each unit of the organization through its staff.

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Theoretical Strategies and Practical Applications

While the entire world suffers from retaining workers in the healthcare industry, retaining nurses and nursing managers is one of the highest priorities for healthcare facilities. With high burnout rates, high retirement rates, low enrolment rates in nursing schools, low compensations for demanding positions, stressful working environments, and high job dissatisfactions in the nursing field, it is expected that the nursing field will experience high shortages because replacement and retention rates are too low to keep up with retirement rates. It is possible to categorize factors that determine nursing manager retention rates by importance. “Communication, participative management, and effective Continue reading...

Introduction

It is said that in this world, change is the only permanent thing. Indeed, changes in the nursing profession and health care industry are inevitable as a result of external and internal catalysts. Policy reforms occur because of social, economic and political pressures. Knowledge is created every day, technology evolves at a fast pace, and consumer demands change. Organisations must respond effectively by modifying their strategic goals, structures, systems, processes, and culture (Anderson & Ackerman-Anderson, 2001). As a result, the professional roles of nurses expand, clinical practices improve, the work environment benefits from redesign, and patients receive better care. For Continue reading...

This is to bring to your attention some past research and developments related to the proposed staff self service system. There has been past research in the area concerned with self service system especially with the staff. Many organizations have implemented systems that have allowed their staff to get access to their informational data without necessarily going out for the administrators or human resource department assistance. This has seen many advantages in many organizations. Some of which have catapulted the organizational objectives and standards to higher levels. In the past, academic institutions as Continue reading...

Communication in Nursing

The basic communication elements are (1) the sender, (2) the channel, (3) the receiver, and (4) the message. All of those elements need to be unambiguous to achieve effective communication, which means that the sender must send a clear message to the receiver through an appropriate channel. Effective communication is critical in healthcare because it affects patient safety, treatment outcomes, conflict resolution, and job satisfaction. However, various factors other than the basic communication elements affect the quality of communication in healthcare. Those factors include the organisational structure, leadership and management styles, organisational culture, staff motivation, and the organisational goals.

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In this piece of work I will focus on Training Needs Analysis (TNA) as the a prerequisite for an effective training initiative of any company that has the objectives to contributing to employee development, in a nutshell it involves an investment on human resource in employment for enhanced productivity. Within this paper I will briefly describe the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and what it does. All over the world, managers, are responsible for in house management including development and training of their teams. This gives them an understanding of TNA and its implications to an organization such Continue reading...

Implementing Planned Change

Implementing Planned Change
1. Problem identification: The number of complaints from patients about the lack of quality in hospital services has increased tremendously, when compared to the last few years. The number of complaints have tripled when compared to previous years. Complaints are received in both verbal and written form on a daily basis. Patients are most affected by the lack of quality in nursing service. Staff and care providers are also agitated by the increase in the number of complaints. From the nature of complains we understand that the patient dissatisfaction exists at different levels. Some complained of Continue reading...

Introduction

In recent times, there have been many developments in the healthcare sector. Healthcare practitioners have been equipped with skills that enable them to serve the society in the most effective manner. Like in any other sector, the proper running of things in healthcare is reliant on the administration, leadership or management. The management or leadership in all health care settings has the responsibility of making sure that patient care meets the standard or the set objectives. Administrative duties include tasks such as coordination, decision making and injecting motivation to the workforce. This paper will close analyze different objectives of Continue reading...

Identification of the issue

Many countries of the world are facing the problems of the nursing shortage and high nurse turnover in the healthcare set-ups. Many young nurses either change their place of employment or leave the nursing profession within one year of their professional careers. High nurse turnover is economically costly and is associated with negative patient outcomes. Several strategies have been adopted by the healthcare systems to reduce this shortfall. Two of the most significant of these strategies are attracting newcomers to the profession and improving staff retention.
A significant link exists between healthy work environments, job satisfaction and staff retention. Continue reading...

Introduction

I write this plan as the Head Health Care administrator based at USA Community Hospital. The plan has been necessitated by the recent conduct of the staff in this hospital whereupon patients and members of the public alike have raised concerns over the unethical, unlawful and inhuman conduct of the staff towards patients most of which are HIV/AIDS patients in the hospital. Such patients are not accorded the attention that they require and whenever our staff attend to them they look down upon them. This has occasioned them untold psychological trauma and great injustice, this being a public hospital Continue reading...

Management

Sources and Methods 6
Discussion of Findings 6
Causes 6
Impacts 9
Recommendations ..10
Conclusion 12
Letter Of Transmittal
Dear Mr. John,
Enclosed is the report you commissioned on 9 September, 2013 on the parking problems faced in the campus. The main findings of the report are
- The high cost of parking is a burden to students who rely on their parents financially.
- The parking spaces are inadequate forcing students to either park outside campus or fail to attend lectures.
- The problem has escalated, and it needs to be addressed. It has lead to wastage of Continue reading...

Racial Diversity Issue in the Prison Facility

Race and ethnicity have always been a controversial issue in many places around the world. The ignorance of racial diversity among people not only in the society, but also in many organizations raise concern with equality and discriminatory judgement. A prison facility for example, particularly in the United States faces the same dilemma when it comes to racial differences that impact the administrative and operational management. A facility consists of inmates from various cultural backgrounds and ethnicity together with the same mix of racial diversity among staff is most likely to create a collision at any given time. Continue reading...

This research study set out to determine if hourly nurse rounding is an effective strategy for improving satisfaction and safety levels of hospitalized patients. A controlled clinical trial involving a group of 150 patients staying in a hospital ward was conducted to achieve the objectives of the study.

Introduction

Understanding the significance of nursing care roles
Need to increase the engagement of nursing practitioners
A Look at epidemiological data
Method
Study design
Data collection techniques
Data analysis
Results
Findings of the study
Discussion
Implications for nursing practice
Conclusion and way forward

References: a comprehensive list of 14 academic and scholarly material will be used for the study.

Nurse Rounds: Do Hourly Nurse Rounds Increase Patient Satisfaction Continue reading...

Introduction 3

Research Questions 3
Terms and Definitions 4
Health and Needs Assessment: 4
Significance of the Study 4
Need for Assessment 4
Proposal to the client 4
Objectives 5
Literature Review 5
Methodology 6
Research design: 7
Limitation of the study 7
Data Analysis 9
Negative Results 10
Summary 11
Recommendations 12

Introduction

Research indicates that nursing group teamwork directs to high-level job satisfaction, safety of patients, better care, and better patient satisfaction. However, unfortunately there has been very little attention paid to the teamwork of nursing staff WHO. Quality in care, patient safety and higher level of job satisfaction is Continue reading...

Introduction

Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) is a design or technique that has been applied in clinical practice integrating technology in the ordering of medication, laboratory test and billing of clinical data. The CPOE technique has in recent years gained prominence in healthcare settings to optimize care, minimize duplication and errors and subsequently optimize patient outcomes. The focus is on the technical aspects of the implementation process for a healthcare setting that wishes to adopt the CPOE technique (Doolan & Bates, 2002).

Method of obtaining the necessary approval(s) and securing support from your organization's leadership and fellow staff

For any new project, the success of its implementations and full utilization lies with the approval and support that Continue reading...

Executive summary

With the introduction of information systems, there has been easy management of information and automation of business processes. Research has shown that the users of Margaret Thatcher library have been experiencing massive difficulties due to lack of computers and e-learning materials in the library. A lot of time is wasted by students trying to look for books in the shelf. The key contributing factor is the fact that it is cumbersome and tedious to arrange the books. The management of Margaret Thatcher library is proposing an integrated library management information system that will assist students in both locating the Continue reading...

Introduction

‘When employees feel inspired to live up to their full potential in the workplace, their companies excel.’ (Harvard Business School, 2005). In the fast changing environment of the 21st century, there have been a number of changes in which profit margins have decreased and companies have made the difficult decision to close down their businesses due to tough competition. Managers motivating employees to their full potential can generate a successful organisation, even in the tough times.
The scope of this topic is to examine theories of motivation and to understand how they correlate with managers and employees in the Continue reading...

NORTHWEST STATE COLLEGE

Discussion of Northwest College case study
This discussion will include an identification and discussion of the implications which the external labor market as well as the recruitment strategies will have on the recruitment outcomes. The paper will also attempt to design a strategy that will improve the recruiting outcomes for the

Implications of external labor markets and recruitment strategy

As explained in the case study, the Northwest State college has been experiencing problems with its staffing requirements especially due to the fact that there is not enough resources to hire the required number of staff, and the few staff that is in the company are leaving to Continue reading...

Organization: Teen Athletic League

Introduction
Arguably, ethics is the heart of any organization in the world today. Regardless of whether the organization is a profit making or non-profit making, ethics forms the base of success, and achievement of goals. Ethical organizations do not just happen, but are built and developed. In building an ethical organization, it is advisable to begin by adhering to organizational mission, vision, as well as creating an ethical organizational culture. In a non-profit making organization, financial gain is not an issue, but rather focusing on ethics among its employees and members is fundamental. In building an ethical organization, all Continue reading...

Introduction

Retirement homes are set up to provide quality essential care to the people who cannot effectively take care of themselves the group that is between 55.years and above. Roundal wright retirement homes has some management concerns that have been raised by the residents, these concerns need to be resolved so that the residents live comfortably and also get the value for their money. Among the issues raised is lack of adherence to safety standards for instance when the lift is not big enough to cater for people with wheelchairs. In addition, parking problems were also a concern the parking Continue reading...

Meeting Agenda for HR manager

In the first meeting with the staff, Jill can consider the following as the agenda for the meeting:
- Official introduction to the staff
- Organizational culture and structure
- Internal Communication within the Department
- Challenges Facing The Employees
- A.O.B
- Closing Remarks

The importance of the agenda items

i. Official introduction to the staff
As Jill sets out to assume a managerial position in the HR department, it is important to quickly develop an understanding on her area of operations. The manager needs to know her team, and they as well need to know the manager. This first meeting agenda will give Continue reading...

Personal leadership Development Plan

Personal leadership involves a person’s leadership qualities ion solving problems related to leadership. The person evaluates oneself to determine the probability of succeeding as a leader. The process usually involves use of personal leadership skills and managerial skills to succeed.
In the process of presenting my personal leadership development plan, I wish to present both my strong points as well as the weaknesses in leadership. In the paper, I will adequately cover the strengths in leadership and expound more on the weaknesses. The paper will further cover the aspect of factors that contribute to the leadership flaws in Continue reading...