HR Responsibilities of Nursing Supervisors

Study Notes

Human Resource Management

Transfers involve moving employees to different jobs that better satisfy their needs, providing broader job experiences, filling vacancies, and keeping promotion ladders open.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation administration determines a cost-effective pay structure that attracts and retains competent employees, provides incentives, and ensures fair pay levels.
Factors influencing pay levels include job kind, business type, environment, geographic location, employee performance, and seniority.
Compensation takes two forms: wages (hourly rate, salary, bonus, tips, commission) and benefits (social security, workers' and unemployment compensation, paid time off, insurance, and retirement programs).

HR Responsibilities of Nursing Supervisors

HR/personnel planning ensures the right number and kinds of people are in the right places at the right time to help achieve organizational goals.
Staffing involves filling open positions through six steps: job analysis, personnel planning, recruiting, interviewing, testing and selection, and training and development.

Job Analysis

Job analysis gathers information to determine the elements of each job, identifying tasks, duties, and responsibilities to produce a job specification.
Job analysis defines job content to base wages and salaries on.
Job specification outlines the human qualifications required to accomplish a job.
Job description documents job responsibilities and duties.
Job evaluation serves purposes such as selection, performance appraisal, training, remuneration, and organizational restructuring.

Recruitment

Recruitment attracts a pool of potential employees from which to select the best candidates to meet organizational needs.
Methods of recruitment include current employees, advertising, the internet, employment agencies, contingent workers, and college recruiting.

Selection

Selection involves choosing the most suitable candidates to meet business needs.
Steps in the selection process include:
- Preliminary interview
- Biographical inventory
- Testing (intelligence, mechanical comprehension, personality, ability, and aptitude)
- In-depth interview
- Performance references
- Physical examination
- Personal judgment

Training and Development

Training provides new employees with information they need to do their jobs satisfactorily.
Development involves the broader scope of improvement and growth abilities of employees.
Well-designed training programs produce knowledgeable, motivated, and efficient employees.

Orienting Employees

Orientation formally introduces new employees to their jobs, the organization, and socializes them with performance expectations.
Objectives of orientation include reducing anxiety, familiarizing new employees with the job, and facilitating the outsider–insider transition.
An effective orientation program reduces employee anxiety and turnover, conveying general information about daily work routine, organization history, and policies.

Description

This quiz covers the human resources (HR) responsibilities of nursing supervisors, including topics such as HR planning, succession planning, staffing, job analysis, and recruiting. Test your knowledge on how nursing supervisors manage personnel effectively.