Healthcare management (Discussion questions) What are the top three elements in developing your practice as a human resource manager that will ensure your competitive advantage?

First student

One of the most notable features of successful companies such as Google is the degree to which these companies realize that people are some of their greatest assets. Google offers such perks as allowing engineers to pursue their own projects on company time as a way to attract the most creative people within the IT industry as well as to develop new ideas that might not come from the upper levels of management. Google offers 'perks' that make creative people flock to the company and which ensures once hired, the employees remain focused on their work. One of the reasons Google offers free food, dry-cleaning, and fitness classes is not simply to be nice but also because it increases worker loyalty and keeps workers' attention focused on their work, not distractions at home.

Google also has an extremely rigorous hiring process, to ensure that all employees are a good fit for the organization. It also has a rather unique feature in the screening process in that "uses panels of varied employees -- not potential direct supervisors or peers -- to handle its worker selection process" (Halzack 2013). This is to ensure greater objectivity, given that the people doing the hiring are not the candidate's potential bosses. The ideal is that...

For example, after analyzing the success rates of candidates, it concluded that no more than four interviews are necessary for most prospective employees, when considering them as potential hires for the company (Halzack 2013). However, it is not a slave to 'big data' -- it will occasionally bring in a rare candidate for a fifth interview if the hiring panel is genuinely on the fence about his suitability.
Reference

Halzack, S. (2013). An inside look at Google's data-driven interview process.

The Washington Post. Retrieved from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/an-inside-look-at-googles-data-driven-job-interview-process/2013/09/03/648ea8b2-14bd-11e3-880b-7503237cc69d_story.html

Second student

Organizational culture is an extremely important component of success. It is essential that HR finds people who fit into that culture. Zappos is an example of an organization which places a high premium on attitude as much as capabilities of prospective employees. "Zappos takes cultural fit seriously and hires slowly. Months can pass between an initial cultural fit interview with an HR recruiter and an actual job offer. If a potential employee fails to pass the cultural fit interview (50% of the…