Health Manpower Management: Volume 18 Issue 4
Table of contents
Why Doesn’t Performance Pay Work?
Richard Paul GriffinThe NHS is about to embark on the widescale introduction ofperformance‐related pay. A number of recent studies have seriouslyquestioned the efficacy of merit pay. Utilizing the…
Further Thoughts on the Reward of Health Care Assistants
Susanne J.B. TaylorDiscusses the need to view HCAs in a multiskilled generic context,irrespective of function (for reward purposes). Suggests threegroups (direct care, indirect care and support)…
Organizational Review and Analysis: A Case Study
J. Fred RayworthPursues an organizational review and analysis of the Human ResourceDepartment (HRD) in a large Canadian health care facility, when adecision was taken to make all management…
Making the Manpower Information Role Proactive
Neil Flintham, Panikkos ParmaxisWith a second wave of Trusts now operating, there is anever‐increasing need for manpower information to be both accurate andclearly‐presented for internal use. Explains the…
Measuring Effectiveness: Is NHS Personnel Getting It Right?
David Guest, Riccardo PecceiAims to develop and validate a qualitative measure of personnelmanagement effectiveness among NHS personnel for the Department ofHealth. Explores the influences of index scores…
Managers as Social Surgeons
Malcolm MacLachlanDeals with the Health Service manager′s problems of pruning staffin NHS Trust applications. Compares handling staff with a surgeonhandling patients pre‐, during and…
Cafeteria Benefits in the NHS?
Susanne J.B. TaylorChoice of benefits in addition to (or as an alternative to part of)base pay. Lessons from the USA. How much applies to the NHS in the UK?Discusses some examples and describes a…
Performance Appraisals: Never Mind the Boss, Please the Customer
Harry R. NevlingCompares the general conception of the performance appraisal systemas evidenced in yesterday′s and today′s attitudes and goes on toprognosticate the approach of tomorrow…
New Roles for Old
John Edmonstone, Carole ChisnellThe creation of clinical directorates in acute hospital serviceshas directed attention towards the clinical director role. The two“support” roles of clinical nurse manager and…
Business Planning: Learning by Doing
John Edmonstone, Maggie HavergalPlaces business planning in health care within a contextual andconceptual framework as a background to describing a developmentprogramme for the NHS in Scotland to facilitate the…