...Managing Staff Adrienne Molett HCA/270 November 27, 2011 Axia College Managing Staff Annualizing staff is one way that health care facilities can monitor hours needed to provide care for patients. In this paper, I will be discussing how the costs are tied into staffing, the differences between annualized and scheduled-position methods. I will also talk about the reason to annualize the staff and what benefits of recording productive and nonproductive time. I will then provide a conclusion to summarize everything I have discussed. Managers in health care facilities are responsible for making sure the positions are fully covered at all times, especially if the facilities is opened 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There is one way the manager can monitor how the hours are distributed. The manager is given the cost for the month and this is when the manager must tie the cost into the actual staffing. The manager must look at how many hours it will take and find out based on the actual employee on how many nonproductive days they have to be able to equally distribute the hours for the week. Managers must know the difference between the annualized method and the scheduled-position method in order to schedule the hours correctly. These methods can vary depending upon the facility, so it is vital to know which method the facility uses. The annualized method is when the manager must include the employees’ unproductive days with their productive days to know what the exact...
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...Managing Staff June 16, 2013 HCA/270 Financial Matters For Health Care Professionals Managing Staff Healthcare services administration has several roles in a facility, which depends of course on the type of facility and the size of medical facility. Overall administrators supervise, plan, and organize all decisions made within the facility. This also includes taking responsibility in staff members’ duties. Managers are also in charge of finance, accounting, marketing, policy, budgeting, and most important human resources. How are costs tied to staffing? Obtaining control of labor staff cost in a medical facility is not as simple as saying the sky is blue. This task takes lots of consideration. There would always be patient volume, once again depending on what type of practice it is, staffing calculations are actions used to calculate coverage all periods of times. Since some medical staff members work all day this means shifts would change every eight to twelve hours. The method is a basic 40 hour work week. That’s saying if someone is working twelve hour shifts they would work three in half days which would add up to 40 hours a week. Or if its eight hours shift they would work five days a week. Why annualize staffing? Annualizing is important because employees work hard and deserves their time off such as vacation time, also if due to an emergency an employee could...
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...Managing Staff HCA/270 Managing Staff Introduction Health care managers play an important role in health care “by assuming leadership and management responsibilities for multiple units and departments. Managers in health care organizations spend significant amounts of time and place high value on communication, problem solving and decision making, collaboration with other disciplines, people development, staffing and cost containment.” ("Health Care Managers' and Administrators' Roles, Functions, and Responsibilities.” 1999). With these responsibilities managers also need to watch over productive and nonproductive time. According to Baker & Baker “productive time actually equates to the employee’s net hours on duty when performing the functions in his or her job description. Nonproductive time is paid-for time when the employee is not on duty: that is, not producing and therefore “nonproductive.” Paid-for vacation days, holidays, personal leave days, and/or sick days are all nonproductive time” (p 96.). Cost Tied to Staffing Health care facilities have a constant fluctuation of patient flow, and it is the manager’s job to make sure that these facilities are properly staffed so that patients can be cared for. These fluctuations can be caused by the spread of viruses like the flu and other illnesses. Wide spread illness can cause health care facilities to become extremely busy very quickly. A way for health care managers to help prepare for these fluctuations can...
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...Managing Staff Leticia Briggs HCA/270 February 2, 2014 The role of Health Care Manager’s is a very important role to take on. It consist of overseeing financial report’s, directing investment activities, and preparing cash management strategies. Managers also play an important role in mergers and consolidations, global expansions and financing to reduce risks and maximize profit (Crainer&Dearlove, 2004). Depending on the type of facility and the size of medical facility Health Care Manager’s supervise, plan, and organize all decisions made within the facility including taking responsibility in staff ore funds for their salary member’s duties. Cost is tied to staffing in Health Care because if you have many staff, then you need more funds for their salary and where will you get that except in rising cost of health care services. This task takes a lot of consideration. With the patient volume this is when staffing calculations is used to calculate coverage of all periods of times. Since medical staff members working all day that means shift would change every eight to twelve hours. The method is a basic 40 hour work week. Cost is also tied to staffing due to costly patient errors a 2003 study showed the cost of care for patients who developed pneumonia in the hospital rose 84 percent. Adequate Nurse Staff has...
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...TOPIC 1 INTERNATIONAL STAFFING IN A MALAYSIAN MULTINATIONAL ( PROTON ) MANAGING PEOPLE IN MULTINATIONAL ORGANISATIONS TBS 981 MASTER OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SYDNEY BUSINESS SCHOOL – INTI CAMPUS PREPADED BY: Yeow Sin Kah (4785149) LECTURER: Dr. Peter McLean SUBMISSION DATE: October 19, 2014 Executive Summary This report examines and evaluates various topics concerning the difficulty of international staffing. We aim to provide a holistic guideline and report that can aid and assist Proton in their staffing selection of selecting either a Malaysian expatriate or a Chinese local to be operations manager for Proton’s new factory in China. We anticipate that it is by having the significant understanding on the overall issue regarding international staffing approach, knowing how regarding international assignment selecting process, knowing why on the cause of expatriate failure, then only Proton’s IHRM would be able to come out with a strategic International HR Management approach that could minimize the cost and failures of international assignment. Table of Content Page 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 International Staffing Policies 5 3.1 Ethnocentric Approach 5 3.2 Polycentric Approach 6 3.3 Region centric Approach 7 3.4 Geocentric Approach 7 3.0 International Assignment Selection 8 3.1 Technical Competency 8 3.2 Personal Traits 8 3.3 Ability to...
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...Managing cross-cultural staff." ABSTRACT Cross-cultural communication in business is a feature of study that looks at how people from dissimilar backgrounds converse, in comparable and different ways among themselves, and how they handle to communicate crosswise with cultures. In this investigation we will try to find which are the problems and what ways can we find in order to manage better employees from around the world. The plan of the essay is to expand a better understanding of the key points that control cross-cultural communication and international staff managing . 1. INTRODUCTION Anthropology includes all aspects of human behaviors and ideas. Anthropologists study diverse cultures to be more compliant and accommodating, more appreciative and to improve our own culture. Culture influences the business setting and management practices of a country and helps appreciate the differences between countries, it is difficult to determine and shows significant dissimilarity inside a country .A cultural approach does not accommodate transform and tends towards stereotypes. Besides every country has its own position of competitive improvement in its politico-economic ,industrial relations ,training and other requirements for firms and workers in their dealings with the state and culture. The resultant 'varieties of capitalism in different countries mediate the influences of global economy and multinational practices (Armit and Shoemaker ,1993).There is a challenge...
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...Healthcare managers are sometimes referred to as healthcare administrators and healthcare executives. At the most basic level, the healthcare manager job description is to manage all or part of a healthcare facility (Healthcare Manager Job Description, 2010). A health care manager’s role will vary depending on type and size of the facility they work in. A health care manager in a large hospital may oversee one department but work with several health care managers to ensure that the hospital runs smoothly and evidently. But at a smaller facility a health care manager may oversee the entire facility. The role of health care managers can vary depending on the position. Examples are: Clinical managers, Health information managers, and Group medical practice managers. Clinical managers create and implement policies for a specific department, evaluate the performance of personnel and develop the yearly budgets. Clinical managers have medical experience in the field in which they work in. Example they may oversee the department of respiratory therapy they would have some experience or training for this field. Health information manager maintain health records and makes sure medical records are stored properly. They also must be up to date with government regulations and rules as well as software technology. Group medical practice managers work with a group of medical doctors and handle the budgets, billing, personnel, and patients (Role of a Healthcare Manager, 2010). Healthcare...
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...HOW TO MANAGE HIGH STAFF TURNOVER 1. Don't hire out of desperation. Do not just hire an employee because you needed someone to fill the position yesterday. That is what temporary employees are for. If you are looking for someone to fill the position long term, it is best to take some time to do your research. Gather as much information as you can about a job applicant. Information you would need is contact information for personal and business references, a list of past and present employers, social security number, birth date and more. These items will help you complete reference checks and to perform background checks to find out about any past criminal activity. Call on a reference. You are never too busy for that. 2. Offer skill testing. If you want to decrease employee turn-around, you can perform skill tests on your job applicants. You can either do this directly through your human resource department or you can contract this responsibility out to a job placement agency. This is one of the tools that will help you determine whether you have found the best fit for each position your company has open. Not only that, but it also cuts down on your new applicant recruitment costs. Every company has some form of testing or verification. Have a competition with it or an incentive. 3. Profile for Temperament. Each job description should include a consideration of the social aspects of the job. Is the job task oriented or people oriented? Does the job require much...
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...meeting to agree on where to go on the company business retreat (Melbourne, Noosa or Fiji) b) A meeting to develop a fire evacuation plan and procedure for the simulated business c) A meeting to agree on a cleaning procedure for the simulated business. Remember, you only need to choose ONE of the above options in order to complete the assessment tasks. If you choose to use a simulated workplace, you will need to create all necessary details yourself when completing the tasks. Complete the workplace outline below. Name of business | Freedom Fuels | Description of business | Petrol station and café and convenience store | Number of employees in your workplace (approximate) | 10 | Meeting (page 5) Meeting name | Staff Meeting | Meeting purpose | To discuss the run out of the new Chicken Salad Wrap to be made in the café and to...
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...reside at the downtown Women’s Residential Program. Public Service Consulting worked with the YWCA to help raise funds and build support for both projects. PSC helped develop the fundraising strategy and wrote grants for capital investment to build the Family Center. We also helped organize and facilitate the Neighborhood Advisory Council to build support for the project and work through community issues. PSC developed a staff training plan and coordinated training for more than 50 staff members prior to the facility opening in October of 2005. At the downtown Women’s Residential Program, PSC worked with YWCA administrators to research and develop a successful three-year funding proposal that greatly expands supportive services and facilities for women in the program. Prior to the expansion, staff offices and program locations were spread out over seven floors, with staff available mostly on weekdays during office hours. Now services are consolidated on one floor with a friendly, convenient “drop-in” center approach for residents. Supportive service staff are available around-the-clock to help residents achieve their goals, and to improve building safety and security. PSC continues to work with the Resident Council to refine the new program design, and coordinates meetings of the peer recovery program in partnership with the Commons at Grant and YMCA supportive housing...
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...The Universal Language Matthew Murphy ENG 111 Introduction to Composition Spring 2014 The Universal Language My journey began with a telephone call. This was before everyone had a cell phone. The house phone rang in my parent’s kitchen. I was a junior in high school, hadn’t travelled much yet, wanted to get out and experience the country. When I picked up the phone a voice that I didn’t recognize asked for me. All that I could think was “Damn, another recruiter.” As it turns out I was correct, just not in the way I thought. The voice on the phone introduced himself as Nic Simons of the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps. Now I had head of the Troopers, My primary musical influence had performed with them and treasured the experience. Nic offered me a position with the Troopers playing something called a contrabass bugle; all I had to do was get to Casper Wyoming, in three days with $500. The deal sounded like winning the lottery with a kicker of performing live! Of course I was in. When I arrived in Casper, having scraped together the last of my savings I didn’t know what to expect. My folks dropped me off at the Corps office, which was connected to a bingo hall, the smell of cigarette smoke pervasive, as if it would invade everything and there was no stopping it. After my parents signed paperwork giving their official permission to leave for the summer ad travel around the country with a group of people they had never met, we said a short goodbye that had my mom in...
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...The Best HR Department Project Lauren Secko Human Resource Management SNHU 71 Aiken Street, Unit H6 Norwalk, CT 06851 Telephone: 203.550.8114 Email: lsecko@newcanaanymca.org Instructor: Dr. Bonnie Nelsen Executive Summary The best HR departments are ones that bring out the best in the team that they are working with. This is done through asking for and being open to feedback from those that you are representing. There are many components that go into this process, and one is no more important than the next. It is all of them together that brings forth an innovative and inclusive HR department that is there to service each and every staff member that is hired. From training and development, to retention and top talent recruitment, HR departments need to understand what is important to their staff and how they can make that team feel engaged and valued. When one is able to perfect that, they can then formulate a department and company that is working towards a common mission and goal. I hope to address this process through my paper that follows. The Best HR Department The best HR departments are ones that are able to attract and help to retain top talent. These departments help their employees feel valued as more than just a number or a tool to make their company better. Instead they make sure that employees know that who they are outside of work and what experiences they bring to the table every day, are valued and received. HR should be a place...
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...Manager’s Job in Context Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………3 The organization……………………………………………………………………………… 3 Job Description of a manager in an organization......................................................................4 Organizational Structure...........................................................................................................6 Internal and external interactions of Managers.........................................................................8 Recommendation......................................................................................................................9 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................10 References...............................................................................................................................10 Introduction Organizations can be considered as a system which consists of a numerous number of people who coordinate and work together to achieve the common goal. Organizational behavior is the set of actions performed by the individuals or the attitudes of the individuals in a particular organization. For a manager it is very essential to study and understand the organizational behavior as it will assist him to identify and correct problems, establish necessary changes etc. Management or managers plays a vital role in organizational behavior and in achieving...
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...retain him. Promotion seems a natural choice to reward his achievements and encourage him to contribute more to the company. However, an immediate promotion may also put some negative impacts on the company’s culture and the effectiveness of the review process. After weighting the cons and pros, we decided that he should be given another year as a principal, to improve his communication and interpersonal skills, and then given another chance at the Managing Director promotion. It is well known that a strong and unified culture is one of the key values of Morgan Stanley, they are not willing to maximize the business at the expense of their culture, teamwork and the integrity of the process. Once Nasr promotes Rob at this time, it will deliver a wrong signal to his fellow colleagues that aggressive and crude attitude, or other problems he has are acceptable and could be compromised if it means getting the job done. Managing Directors are at the top of the pyramid and as such have to be the “standard bearers” for all of the junior staff. In the review process, Rob does show acknowledgement of this weakness, which is the first step towards improvement and demonstrates a work ethic in line with company policies. But this acknowledgement may be not specific; he has to receive detailed, benchmark-driven suggestions to improve his behavior by his direct supervisor. He should be given monthly guidelines and benchmarks to document his improvement in terms of softening aggressive behavior...
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...Leadership: Managing Director of Hayasa In a small team of strangers, like the one thrown together for this module, the Managing Director should be the source of leadership and control over numerous responsibilities and functions of their team. • They should pursue the successful completion project goals. • They should keep the team motivated and happy, • They should ensure that the team is giving sufficient effort to the task. The Managing Director should be the most influential and important member of Hayasa car company. The behaviour of this person directly affects the behaviour of his or hers group members, therefore they must show certain key traits and attributes which will exert their leadership and control into the performance of the team, but also themselves. For Hayasa, the leadership was the key factor which influenced and built the group dynamics, the behaviour and motivation of the members during the practical, but also is what I believe the key problem to our lack of success in three years of trading. “The power and influence perspective focuses on the use of power by effective leaders. Two major themes have been identified: a) social power: how leaders influence followers (b) social exchange: discusses the give-and-take relationship between leaders and followers through which leaders are themselves influenced as they try to influence others” (Bensimon et al., 1989) My questions on the lack of social power our Managing Director would...
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