HCM 450 Management Problems in Health Care Industry

Chronic absenteeism is one of many significant problems that health care mangers must learn to confront. Interaction with employees and motivation plays a major role in combating absenteeism. Healthcare managers can always relate to many health care management theories, concepts and practices for guidance. Management must understand and know how to utilize different motivational techniques to develop a thriving healthcare industry.

In management, one of the responsibilities of a manager is to be aware of anything that takes place within the department. One of the issues that a manager must focus on is the chronic absence of the employee. What is chronic absenteeism? American Dictionary (2000) defines absenteeism as “the habitual failure to appear, especially for work or other regular duty.” Traditionally, managers have been interested in absenteeism because of its cost to organizati

According to USA Today, personal illness/family issues and personal needs are the two most common reasons for unscheduled absences. Stress is quickly climbing up in third place, and has seen 316% increase as a reason for absenteeism since 1995. One reason for added stress may be the number of hours Americans are working. “Employees are tapped out on hours put into work. It shouldn’t be a surprise that they’re stress out as they attempt to juggle long hours and personal demands,” said by Nancy Kaylor of CCH’s Health and Human Resources group. A report by the International Labour Organization indicated that American workers are putting in significantly more hours on the job annually (1,966) than their counterparts in other industrial countries. Additional cause for concern comes from various studies that indicate, when employees who are suffering from stress are at work, they are less likely to be productive (USA Today, 2000).

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