CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF: USING TEAMS to ACHIEVE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
CASE STUDY FOR HCA 6225-01
California State University
East Bay – Hayward
02/21/13
1. One feature of the team in this case is frequent turnover among team members. How might turnover among team members affect team performance? What approaches can team leaders to take to minimize potential negative impacts of turnover and gain advantages, if any?
Employee/team member turnover may be mostly a negative issue, yet it can become positive if only controlled by the organization correctly and appropriately. Turnover is often utilized as an indicator of the organization performance and it can easily be observed negatively towards the organization’s efficiency and
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So I suggest yes that they should be involve on the team improvement teams. Their Participation refers to active involvement on implementation. They can participate in oversight, governance, operations, opinion surveys, and complaints. Also according to Rodwin, the aims of early Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) parallel those of consumer/ patient movements. Managed care offers many benefits. It can increase access to primary and preventive care (with minimal or no out of pocket costs). It can also monitor and improve the practices of physicians and other health care providers and coordinate and rationalize the services of specialists. It can also control spending. Consumer involvement can put managers in touch with the experience and desires of customers. It can provide balance and perspective. Although they are being part of the team performance, their voice should be limited and watch over. Consumer voice, participation and representation programs, however, need to be viewed critically because they might demand too many services and can become divided and polarize issues, leading to increased conflict. So therefore, future challenge is to foster balanced, appropriate and effective use of consumer voice.
3. Even when team improvement efforts achieve change, the sustainability of change remains a pervasive challenge. In fact, sustainability of the teams may be problematic. What are the particular obstacles to sustaining the
High employee turnover, where workers frequently leave and must be replaced, leads to increased spending on recruitment and training and can indicate management problems. Employees often have good reasons for moving on but if too many are leaving an organisation, can be very disruptive.
In this paper Team C has discussed the issue of poor employee retention concluding in a high employee turnover rate. This is an issue that can be common among some companies and that is a great example of
In spite of all the benefits of teamwork that already noted there are some challenges which affect the teamwork,
Different individuals that are grouped into teams consist an organization. These individuals are unique yet combined to work together and help reach the goals of the organization. In order to achieve this, leaders should know how to guide these teams effectively in order to attain the organization’s success. In this paper, Leading Teams by Polzer (2003), a Harvard Business School reprint, will be reviewed and help determine the standards for successful teams and what factors are needed to ensure teams are designed for success and achieving its goal. This paper will also explore the characteristics and structure of successful teams within my organization, BayCare Health System; how independent teams are vital to the success of my organization; the different important factors to consider when leading teams within the various levels of the organization including the executive level; the aspects essential in identifying the appropriate members for a team and ensuring the team is successfully launched; the factors important to ongoing team dynamics; the evaluation guidelines for team function and productivity; and how to empower teams through compassion to honor diversity and support equality for all members as they work toward a common goal.
It has been evident that organizations face challenges of maintaining employees within their firms, and the challenge has been in place for a considerable period. Turnover in firms has been associated with different costs that include the process of training new employees, training of the same employees and their selection which has been seen to seen to exceed 100% of the total cost on an annual basis which is usually witnessed in filling the existing position. The quit rate in the United States as indicated by Bureau of Labor Statistics is at 25% (Glebbeek & Bax, 2004). The significant issues that are associated with turnover include work disruptions, direct costs, loss of seasoned mentors and organizational memory. The other concerns that
In any organization high employee turnover is not cost effective and is time consuming. The credibility of the organization might also be affected if employees do not stay for a good period of time working for them. A good reason employees may resign is being motivated by higher pay. No matter how much someone enjoys working for that organization if better pay is offered somewhere else they will more likely will end up leaving. Every organization must maintain salary competitive by offering comparable pay and benefit packages. In addition to traditional “pay and benefit” compensation, some companies also offer extra perks such as on-site gym, day care, discounts on services or traveling and employee assistance programs. Another reason why employees might resign is that they do not feel engaged. Employees like having job satisfaction, challenges, new duties, recognition, receive positive feedback, new goals and job advancements. If employees feel bored they might leave the organization. High-performing workers need to feel that they are being challenged and are moving forward in terms of professional growth and development. Another reason of turnovers is that employees are poorly managed. A bad boss can make employees feel miserable; if their immediate supervisor creates an uncomfortable work environment they may consider leaving. Employees who are well compensated, challenged, engaged and properly managed will likely be
A distinction should be drawn between low-performing employees and top performers, and efforts to retain employees should be targeted at valuable, contributing employees. Employee turnover is a symptom of deeper issues that have not been resolved, which may include low employee morale, absence of a clear career path, lack of recognition, poor employee-manager relationships or many other issues. A lack of satisfaction and commitment to the organization can also cause an employee to withdraw and
Employee turnover can occur for numerous reasons. Employers need to listen to employees’ needs and implement retention strategies to make employees feel valued and involved in order to keep them. The cost of retention is far less more brutal than the cost of employee turnover. Employee turnover has many aspects that will contribute to becoming a lot more money that a company is losing. By recognizing the reason for employee turnover, the cost associated and implementing retention strategies an organization can become a place where everyone will want to work.
Employee turnover is an issue that at some point affects all businesses. Employees choose to leave organizations both voluntarily and involuntarily dependent on a wide multitude of circumstances (Noe et al., 2011). Regardless of the reason for separation, employee turnover comprises of both direct and indirect costs that financially impact an organization. There are four basic cost categories related to employee turnover: separation, replacement, training, and productivity (Source?). Separation costs are expenses that are caused when employees or organizations choose to end their partnership and include expenses such as unemployment compensation, legal settlements, extended benefits, and the cost of conducting exit interviews. Replacement costs are the expenses required to refill the vacant position. These costs include items such as position advertisement, recruitment costs, costs of screening and interviewing employees, and any hiring or signing bonuses expensed to fill the open role. Training costs include the time and effort needed from trainers, supervisors, and co-workers to educate employees. Lastly productivity costs include lower productivity of employees prior to leaving the organization, reduced productivity and increased labor expenses of remaining employees to cover the open positions, morale and reputation issues created by employee losses, increased error rates of new employees, and lost knowledge and efficiency of experienced employee that leave
One of the biggest problems at my current company is that we have a high number of employee turnovers. Some may ask what employee turnover is? How would you define it? Employee turnover is the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers. In human resources, turnover or staff turnover is the rate at which an employer loses and gains employees. By using methods that have proven successful for several different companies like improved screening and interview processes and recording the cost from before and after implementation of a plan we can accurately gauge conditions and adapt the plan as necessary to dramatically reduce the effects and causes of employee turnover.
Employee turnover can be costly to the organization as these costs must be paid for utilizing
High employee turnover rates bear an overall impact on organizational performance. More specifically, the costs of turnover will impact the company’s productivity. The cost of replacing employees can exceed 100% of the annual salary for the open position (Cascio, 2006). There are two types of costs associated with managing turnover, Separation costs and Replacement costs (Allen, Bryant and Vardaman, 2010). When employees voluntarily resign the organization acquires loss time and money to separate from the former employee. These costs include recruiting, selecting and training a suitable replacement. The relationship between turnover rate and performance are inverse. As collective turnover increases, an organizations productivity will decrease (Hausknecht and Trevor’s 2011). Developing mechanisms to offset the desire for employee’s to resign could mitigate the risk of company’s falling short on productivity, and incurring those costs that affect the bottom line.
“Turnover refers to the number of employees who leave a company in a particular period of time.” (Westover 2014 16) Throughout my entire college career I have tried to focus and narrow down on the topic of employee turnover rates. I have researched it, I have studied it, and I have really gone and try to analyze every possibility of cause and effect when it comes to employee turnover rates. There are many aspects to an HRM role within a company and one of those is being able to look at employee turnover rates due to the impact that it can have on a company’s cost. I have chosen to interview two HR managers, Ben Wood with Graphtec INC. and Bill Schlenker with Pierce Accounting, about employee turnover rates for this assignment to have a deeper look into their thoughts, goals, and ideas about employee turnover rates.
This research paper is an examination of literature surrounding the topic of employee turnover. I will attempt to show the relationship between benefits and trends in employee turnover. Evidence supports the fact that there is a statistical relationship between this correlation
In today's business world, managers face lots of challenges in doing their jobs. One of their challenges is mostly about dealing with people that include how to manage human resources to increase performance and job satisfaction in the workplace. Job dissatisfaction affects a company negatively and could lead to high turnover rate. It is not different in my workplace where managers are dealing with high turnover rate (the rate at which employees leave a business). I joined the company in August 2016 as receptionist part-time, it seems one of the biggest problems is high employee turnover. Since I joined the company, there is no month without having a resigning from old and good employees.