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Toward human resource management in inter‐professional health practice: linking organizational culture, group identity and individual autonomy
Author(s) -
Tataw David
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.2098
Subject(s) - health care , institutionalisation , autonomy , human resources , resource (disambiguation) , public relations , knowledge management , organizational culture , human resource management , business , psychology , management , political science , computer network , psychiatry , computer science , law , economics
SUMMARY The literature on team and inter‐professional care practice describes numerous barriers to the institutionalization of inter‐professional healthcare. Responses to slow institutionalization of inter‐professional healthcare practice have failed to describe change variables and to identify change agents relevant to inter‐professional healthcare practice. The purpose of this paper is to (1) describe individual and organizational level barriers to collaborative practice in healthcare; (2) identify change variables relevant to the institutionalization of inter‐professional practice at individual and organizational levels of analysis; and (3) identify human resource professionals as change agents and describe how the strategic use of the human resource function could transform individual and organizational level change variables and therefore facilitate the healthcare system's shift toward inter‐professional practice. A proposed program of institutionalization includes the following components: a strategic plan to align human resource functions with organizational level inter‐professional healthcare strategies, activities to enhance professional competencies and the organizational position of human resource personnel, activities to integrate inter‐professional healthcare practices into the daily routines of institutional and individual providers, activities to stand up health provider champions as permanent leaders of inter‐professional teams with human resource professionals as consultants and activities to bring all key players to the table including health providers. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.