Question

1. Suppose you are a manager at a low-budget healthcare setting, such as a local health department. How will you recruit new staff and motivate current employees when competitors in the area are able to pay 30 to 40 percent more than your organization can? 2. Suppose you are a staff nurse in a hospital that uses an incentive compensation system. Do you have an obligation to disclose the nature of the compensation arrangement with patients? If so, how should this information be communicated, and by whom? 3. How will you design a team-based compensation system such that free riders on the team cannot take advantage of the system?

Answer 1

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Recruiting new staff and motivating current employees is a challenging task at a low-budget healthcare setting. However, the situation can be managed by providing strategic role of compensation, offering compensations for new inventions and performance, proving competence in relavent labor market, paying better for high performing employees and similar incentives. Including the healthcare insurance or health care benefits, health promotion activities, creating stress-free friendly environment and including sick holidays are also important to motivate the employees.