Improving employee productivity in elderly care setting
Kimuli, Barlon (2021)
Kimuli, Barlon
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202105179057
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202105179057
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With increase in ailments and diseases as the world’s working age population continue to shrink across the globe, governments and organizations face uphill task to provide quality care to the ageing population while ensuring cost-effectiveness. The effect of Covid-19 has increased the need to reconsider elderly care planning and expenditure that already has been a challenge to nations.
Improved workplace environment is vital in the ever-changing and increasingly demanding elderly care work settings. Lots of changes in job demands mean that retention of workers should be encouraged through creating working teams that are not only happy and healthy but also motivated to work in order to realize their maximum potential and productivity.
This thesis study seeks to find out how well Organizations can use the scarce human re-sources to provide cost-effective care by improving the environment in which they work. Considering their relations at work, planning and organization of work roles as well as managerial support for the good of the organizations’ goals and for providing good care to the elderly in Finland, Sweden and Norway.
It requires Organizations to concentrate on issues that will reduce spending while maintaining good quality care but should not overlook the need to provide safe and sound physical and psychosocial workplace environments. Need for further investment in orientation, employee training, welfare, support, diversity and motivation which are so important in ensuring steady employee productivity.
Improved workplace environment is vital in the ever-changing and increasingly demanding elderly care work settings. Lots of changes in job demands mean that retention of workers should be encouraged through creating working teams that are not only happy and healthy but also motivated to work in order to realize their maximum potential and productivity.
This thesis study seeks to find out how well Organizations can use the scarce human re-sources to provide cost-effective care by improving the environment in which they work. Considering their relations at work, planning and organization of work roles as well as managerial support for the good of the organizations’ goals and for providing good care to the elderly in Finland, Sweden and Norway.
It requires Organizations to concentrate on issues that will reduce spending while maintaining good quality care but should not overlook the need to provide safe and sound physical and psychosocial workplace environments. Need for further investment in orientation, employee training, welfare, support, diversity and motivation which are so important in ensuring steady employee productivity.