Training and Development In The Healthcare Industry
Performance appraisals and training in the health care industry is very important for the employee as well as management. Thee appraisals are used for developmental and/or administrative purposes and allows the employee to know how well they are doing as well as what areas they need to work on. Management must be involved and dedicated to training an employee, measuring the employee's competencies and also track and evaluate the employee's training effectiveness. Based on the evaluation of how well the employee is doing, the manager can determine if the employee needs a raise, reward, or termination.
Many organizations are willing to train new hires to make sure that they are well educated about the position that they are in. Employers see training of employees as an investment rather than an expense that makes it a comfortable situation. Besides managers training new hires, they also have to train current employee's that may need improvement based on the performance appraisals that are conducted by the manager. Not all managers have the same grading style so the frame for reference (FOR) training had been created to make sure that appraisals are not bias and error free. The frame for reference training is a type of training that presents supervisors with factious examples of worker performance (either in writing or on video), asks the supervisors to evaluate the workers in the examples, and then tells them what their ratings should have been (Gómez-Mejía, Balkin, & Cardy, p. 225, 2010). Training and education is vital in the healthcare industry because it is always changing/updating polices, laws, regulations, updating coding and much more so the employees as well as the managers have to make sure that they stay educated on what is going on. Successful organizations offer employee's tuition reimbursement for continuing his/her education as well as training programs to help educate the employee's on the new...