Front-line training: a health care imperative.

Training departments in health care institutions are faced with the problem of providing increased services despite reduced budgets. The increased educational needs are the result of organizational reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, technical advances, and the increasing reliance on less qualified employees. One solution to this dilemma is to make better use of managers and experienced workers as trainers.

Principles of workforce stability.

The low unemployment rate and the shortage of skilled health care personnel stoke the trend for workers to change jobs and employers. To build workforce stability, employers and managers must make special efforts to counter this trend. Workplace stability is achieved by fielding teams of carefully selected workers and taking measures to prevent them from jumping ship.

I see a change in your future.

Like it or not, peoples' careers are continually being affected by circumstances beyond their control. However, there are steps one can take to become more flexible and adaptable, and thus more employable, in a changing job market. Job security may be decreasing, but opportunities are increasing overall.

The essentials of compassionate downsizing.

Downsizing remains a constant fixture of the organizational landscape. The process causes severe emotional stress on departing employees. It places functional and emotional strain on survivors.