This insightful Research Handbook delivers a comprehensive analysis of the significant contemporary trends and issues affecting human resource management (HRM) for health care, and their subsequent impact on individuals, organisations and national health services. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Contents: 1 Introduction to Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care 1 Aoife M. McDermott, Paula Hyde, Louise FitzGerald and Ariel C. Avgar PART I THE CONTEXT FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE 2 Commentary on Part I. Context: a pretext and opportunity for the renovation of human resources policies and practices in health and social care 18 Jean-Louis Denis 3 The international health labour market and health worker migration 25 Jennifer Creese and Niamh Humphries 4 Organisation and delivery of HRM: strategic HRM, business models and private equity 41 Paula Hyde 5 Employment relationships in health care 55 Nick Krachler and Stephen Bach 6 Labor relations in health care 72 Rebecca Kolins Givan and Nick Krachler 7 Confronting technological change on the frontlines of health care delivery 90 Adam Seth Litwin PART II THE CLINICAL WORKFORCE AND STAFFING 8 Commentary on Part II. The clinical workforce 109 Trish Reay 9 Cycles of deterioration: the medical workforce and the working lives of hospital doctors 117 John-Paul Byrne and Niamh Humphries 10 Researching how to ‘retain and sustain’ the nursing and midwifery professions: time to intervene to improve the practice environment 132 Anne Matthews and Marcia Kirwan 11 Allied health professionals: hidden but essential 149 Matthew Walker, Pauline Stanton, Beni Halvorsen, Jillian Cavanagh and Timothy Bartram 12 Key issues in workforce redesign: insights from support roles in health care 164 Ian Kessler 13 Key considerations in health workforce planning 181 Sarah Simkin, Caroline Chamberland-Rowe and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault PART III ORGANIZING WORK AND TEAMWORK 14 Commentary on Part III. Organizing work and teamwork 201 Jody Hoffer Gittell 15 Occupational segregation, workforce re-design and the consequences for work and employment (in)equalities 206 Anne McBride 16 Participation, involvement and employee voice in health care 224 Leah Hague, Michael Barry, Paula K. Mowbray and Adrian Wilkinson 17 Maintaining workforce capacity: retention and recruitment of health care workers 238 Rachel Williams 18 High-performance work practices in health care: progress on key themes and prospects for future research 255 Steven Kilroy 19 Managing interprofessional teamwork: strategic relational human resource management and the power of relational coordination 273 Qian Zhang, Hao Gong and Jody Hoffer Gittell PART IV EXPERIENCES OF WORK 20 Commentary on Part IV. The experience of work in health care 290 David E. Guest 21 Creating a healthy work environment and worker well-being 300 Anthony Montgomery and Olga Lainidi 22 Pay and reward in health care services: insights from the case of the UK 318 Mark Exworthy and David Nash 23 Job quality: looking after the people who look after the people 335 David A. Buchanan and Simone Jordan 24 Work–life balance in health care 357 Sari Mansour, Malik Faisal Azeem and Denis Chênevert 25 Organizational, team and individual resilience in health care: what does this mean for HRM? 373 Anaïs Galy, Patrick Groulx, Julia Aubouin-Bonnaventure, Denis Chênevert, Evelyne Fouquereau and Séverine Chevalier PART V HRM SUPPORT FOR LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT 26 Commentary on Part V. HRM support for leadership, management and improvement: the key role of health contexts and professionalism 397 Gerry McGivern 27 Virtualizing HR in health care: early insights from a study of surgical teams during COVID-19 406 Tracey Rosell and Martin Kitchener 28 Key issues in management and leadership of interorganisational coordination 420 Ninna Meier 29 A call for strategic HRM to support service innovation in health care 436 Graeme Currie 30 Conclusion to Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care 446 Aoife M. McDermott, Paula Hyde, Louise FitzGerald and Ariel C. Avgar Index 460

‘This Research Handbook assembles outstanding scholars from across the globe to provide compelling, expansive, holistic, and sophisticated analyses of both the daunting workplace challenges to sustainably delivering accessible, high-quality care and the promise of engaged and imaginative human resource management as a solution to these challenges.’