Book description
This book is a comprehensive guide to the essential areas of health
care human resources management, and is an immediately useful practical
handbook for practitioners as well as a textbook for use health care
management programs. Written by the authors of
Handbook for the New Health Care Manager
and Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
, the book covers the context of human resources management in the
unique health care business arena from a strategic perspective includes
SHRM and human resources planning, organizational culture and
assessment, and the legal environment of human resources management.
Managing volunteers and job analysis performance appraisal instruments,
training and development programs, and recruitment, targeted selection
and hiring techniques are covered. Compensation policies and practices,
employer-provided benefits management, implementation of training and
organizational development programs, as well as labor-management
relations for health care organizations and healthcare human resource
information technology are covered, with practical examples and proven
strategies amply provided in each chapter.
Joan E. Pynes is
Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Government and
International Affairs at the University of South Florida. She received
her bachelor's degree in public justice from SUNY Oswego and her PhD
in public administration from Florida Atlantic University. She is the
author or co-author of five books, most recently Effective Nonprofit
Management: Context and Environment and Human Resources Management for
Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Strategic Approach, Third
Edition. She has written or co-written more than fifty academic
articles, book chapters, technical reports, and encyclopedia entries
about public and nonprofit human resources management.
Donald N. Lombardi is Industry Professor of Healthcare, director of
the Stevens Healthcare Educational Partnership, and academic director
of the Veterans Office at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken,
New Jersey. He has consulted to more than 170 health care
organizations in all 50 states and ten foreign countries, has
developed seven accreditation programs for the American College of
Healthcare Executives since 1986, and has written eleven books,
including Handbook for the New Health Care Manager. Dr. Lombardi holds
more than fifty U. S. copyrights on organizational planning,
management, and development systems for text, on-site, and on-line
delivery.
