Poor workforce planning will leave a company facing mass retirements and then in turn short of skills. This makes a company or service reactive rather than proactive. Take the GP situation in Ireland for example, we are facing a shortage of General Practitioners in many areas of Ireland due to retirements and emigration of newly qualified doctors as there is no future for them because of poor workforce planning. There are no incentives in place by the HSE to keep the young GPs here as they are only offering temporary roles. According to ICGP Medical Director Dr Margaret O’Riordan (3) (2015) "Unless corrective measures are introduced, the current trends in emigration and retirement will result in fewer GPs to treat patients in rural areas in the next ten years.’’ This shows how serious a problem can get without workforce planning is and is putting the health
During critical situations the group members will look for your guidance. Quick decision is very necessary at this time. Ability to Delegate Convey your brand vision to your team. It is essential. Create an organized and efficient business policy.
Health workers do not have enough time for effective communication due inadequate numbers of staff, resulting in decreased implementation of family centred care principles. Reinforcing positive aspects of family involvement can help make staff more open to changes (Hoffman, 2012& Shields, 2012).
People understand their jobs better and feel more involved. It helps them develop a sense of belonging and commitment towards the organization. Moreover, this can help increase work productivity and output which leads to the success of the business. Communication Process: “Communication is transfer of information from one person to another, whether or not it elicits confidence. But the information transferred must be understandable to the receiver” G.G.
In most cases, the employer will have a hard time to handle the workload derived from the employees especially when it is an unplanned absence. Absence is further illustrated by Irish Business and Employers Confederation (2011) where they define it as unprepared interruption of the work process due to days lost as a result of sickness or any other cause not exempted through legal entitlements or company agreement. Belita, Mbindyo and English (2013, p.2) acknowledged that absenteeism can be categorized as involuntary absence which is beyond the employees’ control and voluntary absence happens when the employee decides not to attend work intentionally. A recent survey conducted by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (2015) found out that the average level of absence rises slightly from
Leader-member exchange highly improves job quality and fulfilment and aids in demonstrating OCB. For firms to be able to incorporate the OCB, they have to hire people who have conscientiousness traits as they demonstrate OCB behaviour which often results in progression within an organization in special offers and job satisfaction. The workers in return gain respect and recognition for their work from the management which increases motivation and further inspire to adopt OCB. Employees with conscientiousness traits have great LMX quality relationships with their superiors. This leads to high levels of job satisfaction from implementing OCB giving them more responsibility and freedom and present constantly new opportunities for them.
Workforce planning a systematic process: It has been analyzed that workforce planning is a systematic process that involves proactive planning techniques to avoid any talent shortages. The planning is based on the premise that the company can staff more efficiently in case it will forecast its talent needs by evaluating the main supply or available staff member. The planning helps the HR managers to recruit right people at right place with right skills at the right time. Helps HR to know the business cycle: The workforce planning helps HR to smooth the business cycle by developing a process that ramp up and reduce the talent inventories and work efficiently during good times and lean
The employees would feel that their work will be useful and important to the company because they have the tendency to to succeed and being trusted by the company. According to Brookins, M. (n.d), the advantages of job enrichment are the employees can learn new skills, reduce boredom, receive recognition and increase the employee’s motivation. The employee can gain new skills as their responsibility increases and they get new opportunity to try new tasks. It will be different from the tasks that they are given before so they could gain more knowledge. The employee can reduce boredom since they will do the same tasks everyday.
With limited available of employment graduates are forced to seek employment outside of their country thus creating a problem of brain drain which,LaPorte (2005) refers to as the migration of health personnel in search of the better standard of living and quality of life, higher salaries, access to advanced technology and more stable political conditions in different places worldwide. This movement of graduates to other countries for a better opportunities could benefit the individual and their family in many ways, but it leaves a negative impact on their home country economy in few ways which includes, their home country is now losing not only the investment of educating but also the revenue from taxes that can is used to fund health care among others and it creates a gap in the trained knowledge and skilled of professions needed to service the general population. For example, healthcare expenditure in India is 3 percent of GDP compared to 13 percent of GDP in the USA and the ratio of doctor to patients in India is 1:2083 compared to the USA where the ratio is
For instances, 1000 medical trainees had abandon their desire to become doctor even though accomplished 2 years internship in public hospitals due to low English proficiency (MURALI,2015). Furthermore, low English proficiency will limit capability of a person. Teamwork would achieve a better outcome and a person unable to contribute in team if without English fluency especially in multi-linguistic world. In nowadays, job scope include of handling paperwork, document, IT system usage that requires English competency. As an example, understanding written words in form of instructions, reports, letters, memos, notices and any form of official documents in English is necessary for