Humans Are Not Machines

"Humans are not machines; therefore we need to have an interdisciplinary examination of people in the workplace."

The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations.

Activities also include managing your approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies.

Usually small businesses (for-profit and nonprofit) have to carry out these activities themselves because they can't yet afford part- or full-time help. However, they should always ensure that employees have-and are aware of-personnel policies which conform to current regulations. These policies are often in the form of employee manuals, which all healthcare employers must provide their employees to stay compliant with not only federal/state labor regulations, but also compliancy regulations as they relate to accreditation, etc.

Some might argue that there is a difference between HRM (a major management activity) and HRD (Human Resource Development, a profession) and these people might include Human Resource Management in HRD, explaining that HRD includes the broader range of activities to develop personnel inside of their organization, including, e.g., career development, training, organizational development, etc. But, either way you think about this, Federal and State fines for non-compliancy in this area could be assessed, even for "unknowing non-compliancy." As it relates to the Healthcare industry, "To Hire, or not to hire....THAT is the question!"


Simply put, Human Resources Management means Employing people, Developing their capacities, Utilizing, Maintaining and Compensating their services in tune with the job and organization requirements; all the while staying compliant with the ever changing labor regulatory requirements of our Federal and State governments. Healthcare Business Management provides, manages and maintains these services in a cost effective way - Business to Business.

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