Nurse Manager: Benchmarking Productivity
Benchmarking is a process which compares the performance characteristics of an organization and to enable each individual to improve their own performance. There are a couple of purposes for benchmarking. One of its purposes is to find the most valuable way to practice and apply it which will result in a better performance in the organization. Another purpose for benchmarking is looking for ways for employees to improve in the delivery of service. For example managers in the health care have many responsibilities; one is the variable expense of the cost center. Health care managers have to make sure to maintain the right levels of productivity which is a huge challenge in the management process. This process requires a lot of research and help from others regarding the standards of the department. A good way to figure out benchmarking is to look at different organization and compare and contrast the organizations success by getting data that will help improve the organization. Most of the times the help of outside consultants will help provide data needed for the health care manager to implement new and effective strategies to assist and make it for the productivity of the employees (HFMA, 2008).
There are a couple of productivity standards, which will help the organization. One thing is to develop certain standard, where standards are needed based on performances in the past, which some these have problems with the amount of information given about the statistics of the comparison. Another area of standard would be the structure area, this is where the employees or external firms would convey a research of the work flow and get a better look at the productivity that is being done. The final, productivity would be where different types of consultants/firms which portal the health care give support details which were