Healthcare Human Resource Management

Rating:
Summary: Competent Work - But Not Inspired
Review: The healthcare field faces its latest crisis: staffing shortages resulting in upward pressure on compensation and quality of work life issues. HR is targeted for its inability to rise to the occasion and "get the bodies in here." Hiring standards and staffing ratios are pressured.

Studer tells us what we need to do to resolve these immediate concerns, with a demonstrable track record of success. But even the name of the most innovative and clear thinker in health care is absent from this book.

The book will migrate through the "need to know" dimensions of health care HR practice - its sponsorship by the American Hospital Association assures that. But competency stops way short of inspiration. In an industry in crying need for transformational leadership, don't esxpect it from the AHA.