HR Management Tools and Teams

Directions: You have just been hired as an HR manager in a healthcare setting. Select a healthcare organization of interest. You decide to prepare for your first day on the job by creating a document that compiles tools to manage staffing, increase work production, and improve team dynamics. Complete all four parts.

Part 1: Organization Selection

Selected Health Care Organization:

Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)

Part 2: Staffing and Work Production

As a HR manager, your serve the organization at a departmental level. Complete the following boxes, as indicated below. Quality Improvement and Control (What are you responsible for in relation to "quality improvement and controlling"?)

1. 2. 3. Improvement and Techniques (Which improve quality?)
1. Skill training
2. Employee development3.
Tools of Control (What will be your most commonly used tools of control?)
1. 2. 3. Examples of Use (Provide examples of how you may use each of the tools of control identified.)
Benchmarks (What will be your most commonly used benchmarks?)
Examples of Use (Provide examples of how you may use each of the benchmarks identified.)

Organization Vision and Mission (Identify your selected organization's mission and vision.)

1. Above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life. In recognition of this commitment, we strive to deliver high-quality, cost-effective healthcare in the communities we serve (HCA, n.d.).

2. In pursuit of our mission, we believe the following value statements are essential and timeless (HCA, n.d.):
a. We recognize and affirm the unique and intrinsic worth of everyone.
b. We treat all those we serve with compassion and kindness.
c. We trust our colleagues as valuable members of our healthcare team and pledge to treat one another with loyalty, respect, and dignity.
d. We act with absolute honesty, integrity, and fairness in the way we conduct our business and the way we live our lives. Alignment(How do your selected tools align to your organization's mission and vision?)

Part 3: Team Dynamics

As an HR manager, you serve the organization at a team level. Complete the following boxes, as indicated below.

Characteristics (Identify characteristics of successful teams.) Attributes(Identify attributes of successful teams.) Practices(Identify practices of successful teams.)

Methods and Approaches (Identify which methods and approaches encourage a culture of collaborations.)

1. 2. Examples of Use (Provide an example of how methods and approaches encourage a culture of collaboration. What would it look like in your organization?)

Part 4: Cross-Functional Application

Respond to the following in 250 words:

Today's complex organizations often require the smooth, integrated functioning of teams across several functional areas. Leading a team of diverse individuals is quite a challenge. Encouraging the effective collaboration of multiple teams of diverse individuals is even more challenging and requires skilled leaders who can understand and impart organizational vision to team members. Skilled leaders must also foster leadership skills in others to achieve collaboration and organizational success.

Imagine yourself in the complex situation of ensuring the integrated functioning of multiple teams. Answer the following questions in the box provided below.

1. What knowledge and skills will you need to acquire on your own leadership development journey to successfully prepare for such a challenge? Provide specific strategies and examples.

2. What are methods and approaches that encourage a culture of collaboration that encourages cross-functional teams to improve specific patient care and the needs of your organization?