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Taylor, Celia A., McManus, Chris, Davison, Ian, Gill, Paramjit and Lilford, Richard (2019) Using recruitment and selection to build a primary care workforce for the future. Education for Primary Care, 30 (3). 128-132 . doi:10.1080/14739879.2019.1588787 ISSN 1473-9879.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2019.1588787
Abstract
Recruitment and selection are critical components of human resource management. They influence both the quantity and quality of the healthcare workforce. In this article, we use two different examples of primary care workers, General Practitioners in the UK and Community Health Workers in low- and middle- income countries, to illustrate how recruitment and selection are, and could be, used to enhance the primary care workforce in each setting. Both recruitment and selection can be costly, so when funding is limited, decisions on how to spend the human resources budget must be made. It could be argued that human resource management should focus on recruitment in a seller’s market (an insufficient supply of applicants) and on selection in a buyer’s market (sufficient applicants but concerns about their quality). We use this article to examine recruitment and selection in each type of market and highlight the interactions between these two human resource management decisions. Recruitment and selection, we argue, must be considered in both types of market; particularly in sectors where workers’ labour impacts upon population health. We note the paucity of high-quality research in recruitment and selection for primary care and the need for rigorous study designs such as randomised trials.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | |||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Physicians (General practice) -- Great Britain, Personnel management, Developing countries -- Health and hygiene, Community health aides | |||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Education for Primary Care | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | |||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1473-9879 | |||||||||||||||
Official Date: | 4 April 2019 | |||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 30 | |||||||||||||||
Number: | 3 | |||||||||||||||
Page Range: | 128-132 | |||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/14739879.2019.1588787 | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Education for Primary Care on 04/04/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14739879.2019.1588787 | |||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 February 2019 | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 April 2020 | |||||||||||||||
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