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Evaluating and Recruiting Function
Evaluating and Recruiting Function
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Evaluating and Recruiting Function
Question 1:
An evaluation of the St. Vincent’s current recruiting strategy reveals that the hospital is entirely depending on the external recruiting sources, having almost exhausted its opportunities for internal sources. This is because the hospital suffers shortages of basic human resource, the registered nurses needed to provide both basic and advanced nursing. Were it that the hospital needed staffs in some higher positions, it would have considered employing the ‘promote from within’ policy. Such a policy would have seen the hospital participate less in the recruitment process (Arthur, 2012; Fried &Fottler, 2008). However, the fact that the hospital has even closed its school of nursing means that the hospital had to diversify its recruitment sources. It is, however, evident that the efforts of the hospital’s human resource department have not yielded enough fruits. Apparently, it is clear that the hospital is using too many recruitment sources, which may not allow the management to concentrate on a major source. Indeed, from the case study, the director of nursing services, a Sister Mary Louse has suffered a burn-out from the many off-site recruitments she has been undertaking. Since the efforts are not yielding fruits with the current strategy, the hospital needs to consider reducing their recruitment sites in order to concentrate on the ones that have the best results.
Question 2:
Since the hospital is using too many recruitment sources, there is the need to reduce them and concentrate on a few, and then maximize their efforts on the chosen ones. In the provided case scenario, the hospital will need to eliminate the recruitment sources that are not helping them meet their goals. For example, recruitments from direct mail, state nursing association’ meetings, and public employment agencies have none or very little benefits to the recruitment process. It is advisable to deal away with the since they are consuming costs without corresponding returns. Similarly, recruitment from newspaper ads are terrible, proving that the old recruitment source is not that beneficial in the current times (Fried &Fottler, 2008). The hospital needs to do away with this one too. Additionally, recruitment sources such as job fairs, educational institutions, and private employment agencies have very high yield ratios and should also be considered for elimination. A source like job fairs costs the hospital a lot of money, yet not delivering the required results.
Question 3:
The stages between a job offer and acceptance and job acceptance and a survival of overa year have recorded the highest scores in yield ratios. These two stages of the recruitment process can be said to be the most amenable towards improving the recruitment process. From the case study, exhibit 2.17, it is evident that the major reasons for nurse rejection of a job offer at the hospital are the lack of a timely follow-up and negative perception of the recruiter. These two major reasons are highly likely to happen between the stages of interviewing and job offer.
The specific improvements that can be used to reduce the yield ratios include introducing a concrete follow-up strategy on all the applicants, and in all the stages. Additionally, the management needs to reconsider their recruiter since many employees have rejected job offers due to a negative perception on the recruiter. In line with reducing the recruitment sources, the management needs to focus on the modern recruitment sources and concentrate on them. These include tele-recruitments, employee referrals and walk-ins (Kumar, 2010, P. 105; Pynes& Lombardi, 2011).
References
Arthur, D. (2012). Recruiting, interviewing, selecting & orienting new employees. New York, NY: AMACOM Div American Mgmt. Assn.
Fried, B., &Fottler, M. D. (2008).Human resources in healthcare: Managing for success. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.
Kumar, R. (2010). Human resource management: Strategic analysis text and cases. New Delhi: IK International Publishing House.
Pynes, E.J., & Lombardi, N.D. (2011).Human resources management for healthcare organizations: A strategic approach. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Disaster Epidemiology Research Centre
Disaster Epidemiology Research Centre
This report is focused art analyzing the effects of disaster and how to reduce such disasters such as in the country like Haiti that has experienced almost 40 hydro meteorological events in the past 50 years. Haiti has been approximated to b e affected by over 38 hydrometeorological events such as floods and other related events, between 1974 and 2003 according to Disaster Epidemiology Research Centre in 2004. Such threats have in the past caused losses of approximately 7% of the GDP and over 3,000 deaths. In 2008, the threat occurred again involving two major hurricanes and two storms just within three weeks after the first threat. The threats and destructions left over 1,100 people dead and an approximated damage of US$900 Million, which translated to around d 15% of the GDP. The agriculture sector had about S$200 million, housing had approximately US$900 million while transportation sector had about US$130 million. This state of threat and disturbance in Haiti led its government to pass a law on “Natural Catastrophe Emergency Declaration Act”, after which the government declared the nation to b e in a state of emergency. This budget request is focused at looking at the threats faced by various countries and the possible solutions to such threats and destructions.
Before looking at the solutions to such problems, it is important to deeply and strategically look at the causes of such threats and destructions. Such countries exposure to landslides and floods is majorly attributed to two factors: their geography, given that over 80% of such countries are mountainous, with 54 main sub-basins and watersheds. The other factor is attributed to rural farming, given that over 60% of the population in such countries live in extreme poverty and have limited access to farming methods that are cost effective that would promote soil conservation and discourage deforestation. A study carried out by USAID in 2007, referred to as Environment vulnerability, found out that more than half of the nations’ watersheds are vulnerable to the effects of population increase, infrastructure, and erosion. Looking at such destructions and their impacts, it can be noted that climatic changes can lead to the impacts of hydrometeorological events in the nature of catastrophe. To correct such threats and dest7gr5uctions as witnessed in Haiti, it is important to design a disaster management and a national risk plan that involves decentralizing risk management capacity and strengthening emergency response capacity. There is the need to form national strategies aimed at reducing poverty and promoting economic growth in the countries affected by such threats and destructions. The government also needs to form plans or organizations aimed at coordinating national disaster preparedness an d emergency response services in order to avert any form of threat or destruction.
Cultural Representation Of Social Class
Cultural Representation Of Social Class
Social class is a reflection of more than the material conditions of the lives that people live. Objective resources such as income are responsible for shaping up some cultural practices as well as behaviors which signal social class. These signals end up creating cultural identities among the people in the upper and those in the lower classes. This makes people get rooted perceptions that are subjective in terms of social classes. The paper will look at how culture which is related to social class impacts identity and pride within individuals within specific social classes.Social classes have a great influence on people thoughts, feelings and their actions. Social class is a form of cultural identity which is constituted in various processes. First of all the social class that someone belongs to is determined by symbols such as wealth, preferences and social behaviors such as the language they use and their manners. The signals which are class related are responsible for invoking some inferences as well as perceptions of the particular social class one belongs to compared to another (Gabrenya, 2003).
Wealth, occupational prestige and education are some of the objective substances within social class. These objective elements are what bring about distinctions in the material lives between people in the lower and upper class. These elements are what give rise to the differences in culture between the two distinct social classes. The culture related to social class impacts the identity as well as pride within specific social classes. The identity and pride of the people in the upper class is based mainly on the fact that they are wealthy, they have prestigious occupations and their children attend the best schools. This is what makes them to be identified against those in the lower class. They pride in the fact that they are wealthy and consider themselves superior to those in the lower class. On the other hand those in the lower class are not wealthy, they do not have prestigious occupations and their children do not go to the best schools. They have no reason for being proud and their identity is based on these characteristics (Menon, 2011).
The culture that is related to social class helps in keeping other outside a special social class. This is because within a specific social class there are certain behaviors, actions and beliefs that the culture advocates. This means that people might be kept out of special social classes simply because they are not used to the particular beliefs, behaviors or actions which are normal in that social class. Moving from one social class to another can be quite difficult. This is because one is accustomed to the culture that is found within their specific social class.it is not easy for someone who is from a lower class to pass as upper class. Similarly it is also not easy for someone from a higher class to pass to a lower class (Gabrenya, 2003).These two movements are equally difficult since everyone is used to and is comfortable within their social class. This is because they are deeply rooted in the culture that is found within their social class. Therefore even if they move to a different social class they will stiff find themselves acting or behavingin the same way they were in this new social class. They will thus end up not being comfortable since they will not blend in well with other people in that social class.
Culture reproduces social classes from one generation to another. This is because people are used to the existence of these social classes and they are comfortable with .They end up carrying these social classes forward from one generation to another since they considered them part of life and normal. People end up staying in the same social class they are born in since they are used to that particular lifestyle. They get used to the social class and that is what they perceive as normal (Menon, 2011).
References
Gabrenya, W.K. (2003).Culture and Social class. Retrieved June 26, 2013 from http://my.fit.edu/~gabrenya/social/readings/ses.pdfMenon, D. (2011).Social class as culture. Retrieved June 26, 2013 fromhttp://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/social-class-as-culture.html