Facts about Male and Female Employment in Healthcare

Employment Retention in Healthcare for Male and Female Workers



Finding and retaining the brightest of professionals is not easy in any sector. The problem is greater in healthcare than any other industry because the quality of workforce cannot be mediocre. Finding the brightest of employees in the healthcare sector and retaining them is difficult because of the patience and compassionate characteristics required for the job.

The shortage of healthcare workers makes it even more difficult for hospitals and other healthcare facilities when their best employees leave. Women in healthcare Compared to any other sector, the number of women in the healthcare workforce is more. A study conducted in 2012 stated that women managers comprise 73 percent of the healthcare workforce in any country, while only four percent are CEOs. The healthcare sector is no different from most other industry where gender disparity exists. This is yet another reason that makes retaining the best of female healthcare professionals difficult.

Enabling professional growth is important

Lack of benefits, sufficient financial compensation and satisfaction in the work they do are the key reasons for professionals to look at other job opportunities. The same applies to healthcare, except that the pay and the level of job satisfaction in this sector is usually better than that of other sectors. However, lack of professional growth can be de-motivating and encourage the medical professional to look at other avenues. Therefore, engaging the medical professionals, technicians, and administrative staff and allowing them to become more efficient is important to retain them. Focus should be on finding ways to enable growth of medical technicians like EKG technicians, nursing assistants, trained CPR/BLS professionals and phlebotomy professionals, whose work can become monotonous and de-motivating after a while.

                                                  Beyond Employee Satisfaction

Employee satisfaction is not enough to retain the best and the brightest workers in your facility. Engagement of employees in the best possible way, so that they can get a chance to become more efficient and also perform better, is important. Regular surveys that let hospitals and healthcare facilities to gauge the levels of employee satisfaction must be administered. A plan must then be created to develop an interactive and engaging environment where the workers can thrive professionally as well as financially. Dealing with employees - high and low performers.

The hospital or healthcare facility is likely to have performers at three different levels - high, middle and low. The organization should deal with low performers and encourage the middle level performers to get better through incentives. The high performers should not be neglected in the process. The top level management should have annual talks, not just reviews. The idea of these talks should to re-recruit the top and the best performers. In short, the annual talks should eliminate the need for retention talks or discussions.