Ch. 3 Human Resource Management

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Ch. 3Human Resource Management

• KSPE 4250

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Job Descriptions

• Homework for class, part 2
• Write a job description for a team physician for
  your site (budget project)

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Organizational Culture

• beliefs, values, assumptions and norms that form
  the infrastructure of the organization.
• Collegial culture consensus, teamwork,
  participatory decision making
• Personalistic culture autonomy in decision
  making and problem solving
• Formalistic culture clear chain of command and
  well defined formal authority

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Organizational Structure

• span of control of subordinates supervised by
  an individual
• organizational chart tool to illustrate the
  role of an ATC within a program

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Organizational Charts

• Function Oriented most common is AT settings,
  allocate staff members to projects for which they
  have skills and knowledge.
• Advantages/Disadvantages see text

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Organizational Charts

• Service oriented organize staff according to
  the function they serve.
• Advantages/Disadvantage see text

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Organizational charts

• Matrix Organizational Chart combo of strongest
  components of service and function models
• Advantage/Disadvantage see text

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Informal Organizations

• Social contact, satisfaction of needs, power,
  peer pressure, problem solving, goal congruency,
  shared understanding, information and
  communication, knowledge and expertise, formal
  organizational support, physical proximity

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Staff selection

• Staff Selection any procedure used as a basis
  for any employment decision. ATC hiring,
  promotion, demotion, retention, and performance
  evals.
• Step 1 Position description formal document
  that describes the qualifications, work content,
  accountability, and scope of the job.

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Staff Selection

• job specification describes the qualifications
  the ATC should hold
• job description responsibilities for which the
  position holder will be held accountable. Each
  duty should be assigned a weight () so the ATC
  understands which is most important.

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Job Description

• be specific, if possible
• an ATC should have some say in the wording of the
  job description
• reflect characteristics of the job
• should be reviewed and modified once a year

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Staff Selection

• Step 2 Recruitment and hiring. Recruitment is
  planning for HR needs and ID potential candidates
  for those needs.
• Review procedures for hiring and recruiting
• Anti-discrimination questions pg 77

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Steps of recruiting and hiring for employer

• Request for position
• Position request approval
• Position vacancy notice
• Application collection
• Telephone interviews

• Reference checks
• On-site interview
• Recommendation and Approval for Hiring
• Offer of Contract
• Hiring

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Steps of recruiting and hiring for applicant

• Determine desired work setting
• Ask present and past supervisors for references
• Ready resume and cover letter
• Let everyone you know that you are job hunting
• Position vacancy notice
• Application

• Telephone interviews
• Reference checks
• On-site interview
• Offer of Contract
• Hiring

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Validity and Reliability in hiring

• Validity is important because
• Will produce a staff that functions well
• Enhances the efficiency of the selection process.
  
• Keeps hiring process fair and fee of bias
• Two questions to consider
• Could a person who did not meet this criterion be
  reasonably expected succeed in this position?
• How likely is a person who meets this criterion
  to succeed in this position?

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Validity and Reliability in hiring

• Reliability also helps keep bias to a minimum.
• To enhance reliability make sure all candidates
  go through the same screening process and are
  asked the same interview questions.

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Staff Supervision

1. Evaluation
2. Promotion
3. Retention
4. Dismissal

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Legal Aspects on the Job search

• Fair Labor Standards Act
• http//www.opm.gov/flsa/overview.htm
• http//www.dol.gov/dol/esa/public/whd_org.htm
• Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
• http//www.usdoj.gov/discrimination.htm
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• http//www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/publicat.htm
• http//janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/links/adalinks.htm