222 Secrets of Hiring, Managing and Retaining Great Employees in Healthcare Practices

Levoy Robert P Levoy Bob

ISBN 10: 0763738689 / ISBN 13: 9780763738686

Published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Incorporated, 2006

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pp. xviii + 322 Illus.

Seller Inventory # 7620026

Bibliographic Details

• Title: 222 Secrets of Hiring, Managing and Retaining Great Employees in Healthcare Practices
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763738689
• ISBN 13: 9780763738686
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

REAL PRACTICES, REAL PEOPLE, REAL SOLUTIONS

This highly-practical book by well-known seminar speaker and author Bob Levoy is based on research findings from a wide variety of healthcare practitioners, clinic administrators, and practice managers throughout the country. It is a one-of-a-kind reference with tested tips and hard learned lessons for successfully recruiting, interviewing, compensating, managing, motivating, training, evaluating, and retaining great employees in the clinical practice setting. This unique book teaches you how to avoid the costly problems of low morale and employee turnover, and provides action steps to ignite employee motivation and practice growth.

Features & Benefits

• Includes 222 easy-to-read, ready-to-use strategies to dramatically improve the hiring, management and retention of outstanding employees - specifically geared to the unique needs of the healthcare professions.
• Explains "discretionary effort" (the difference between what employees choose to do as opposed to what their job descriptions obligates them to do) and why it flourishes in some healthcare organizations and not in others.
• Includes examples of healthcare practices, hospitals, multi-specialty groups, HMOs and other healthcare organizations - and the proven strategies they have used to achieve high levels of employee productivity and loyalty.
• Contains hard-learned lessons about countless human resource management issues acquired from healthcare providers, administrators and managers at all levels.
• Provides action-steps that will enable you to implement the principles in this book -- starting immediately.                        

About the Author

Bob Levoy, a former corporate executive, is an internationally acclaimed seminar speaker on human resource and management issues. In the course of his career, he has conducted over 3.000 management seminars for business and professional groups, Fortune 500 companies and leading colleges and universities throughout North America and overseas. Among them have been hundreds of healthcare associations in a wide range of disciplines and specialties, He holds three degrees from the University of Connecticut and Columbia University; has written 6 best-selling books, hundreds of articles on management topics for business and professional journals, and recorded numerous audio programs. Currently, he is a monthly columnist and Editorial Board member for various publications in the healthcare professions.