Assignment:
New Health Medical Systems Memo:
As an HR Consultant to New Health Medical Systems, you have been asked to evaluate the company’s staffing strategy to determine how well it aligns with the new strategic goal and the requirement to fill 35 new positions.
Scenario
New Health Medical Systems is a large hospital and healthcare system in the southwestern part of the United States. The Board of Directors recently announced a new strategic direction to become a regional center for critically ill patients. As a part of that strategy, the organization has opened a new cardiovascular unit, where patients can receive care for heart attacks, strokes and other types of cardiovascular disease. The organization was quickly able to recruit a quality physician to head the unit. Additional professional staff was also relatively easy to find; however, finding qualified technicians has become much more difficult than originally anticipated. The problem doesn't seem to be so much in terms of being attractive to candidates, but rather a lack of skilled technicians in the immediate region. Most of the skilled technicians are already employed, and are not actively seeking jobs with other organizations. The director of staffing for the organization has been asked to create a new staffing strategy to fill the 35 new positions in this department. After considering alternatives, she is recommending the following.
1. Place advertisements in the local newspapers.
2. Contact staffing agencies that specialize in placing technicians into health care facilities.
3. Organize a job fair and invite local professionals to attend.
4. Offer a $1,000 signing bonus to anyone who joins the organization and stays for at least 180 days.
Present your evaluation of the staffing strategy to New Health Medical Systems management in memo of no more than 700 words. The following questions should be addressed in the memo:
• To what degree does the staffing strategy align with the company’s new strategic direction?
• What changes or additional recommendations would you propose be done to the staffing strategy in order to meet the organization’s goals?