Career Development Report on Strategic Human Resource Development

Career Development Report
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Career Development Report
1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose
The purpose of this report is to explore strategic human resource development practices at Mercy Hospital with an emphasis on addressing its present struggle with high employee turnover rates. The reliance on people and their skills for businesses mean that such businesses must find avenues to achieve the optimum outcomes from their employees. Part of the strategies includes understanding the employee's needs and addressing those needs efficiently. Unfortunately, all business organizations cannot afford all the needs of their employees. Organizations that are incapable of developing their employees to perform optimally are likely to lose those employees to rival organizations.
1.2 Background of the Organization
In this report, emphasis is put on strategic human resource development within Mercy Hospital, Springfield-Missouri. Mercy is one of the largest hospitals in Missouri with a total of 886 bed spaces. The healthcare facility has seen achievements as one of the best healthcare facilities in the country. However, the facility is facing a range of human resource challenges that will require immediate interventions to address if it is to maintain its position. Over the past 3 years, Mercy Hospital has been faced with increasing employee turnover rates, something that is poised to soil its reputation.
1.3 Scope
The scope of the report is limited to HR strategies within the organization with the support of the facility’s operational reports and published peer-reviewed journals. Mercy Hospital is a recognisable in Missouri. In the past 3 years, the facility has been facing a high employee turnover rate, reaching 22% in 2021. While every department faces the same challenge, the oncology department is largely affected with employee turnover rates eclipsing the organizational numbers. In this study, emphasis will be put on assessing HR challenges at Mercy Hospital with emphasis put on finding solutions, especially to the most affected oncology department.
1.4 Limitations
This report faces a few limitations in its exploration of high employee turnover rates at Mercy Hospital. Primary among the lack of access to primary data. The lack of access to staff documents makes it impossible to reach conclusive findings for the analysis.
1.5 Organization of the Report
The report constitutes five sections. Apart from the introduction, the other sections that this report will cover a critical understanding of career development issues and challenges, career development for the organization, development strategy recommendations, and the implementation plan. Each section constitutes the developmental prospects that Mercy Hospital could adopt to address its high turnover rates. The last section is the conclusion in which the report summarizes details of the findings before emphasizing recommendations that would warrant improvements in the organization.
2. Critical Understanding of Career Development, Issues, and Challenges
2.1 Career Development
Career development is among the critical issues affecting business organizations presently. Definitively, career development is the ...