The role of HRM in ensuring that these standards are met and each of the factors which JCAHO identifies as essential are addressed, is increasingly important. It is this function of HRM that will be discussed in this report. Issues to be examined include the overall importance of PM in strategic HRM, the rationale for implementing PM, the advantages, disadvantages, tasks, and goals of PM, and the relevance o

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care is available to meet patient needs;

With hospitals challenged to resist the reductionist impetus of economically-based and commercially driven approaches to healthcare, HRMs must nevertheless recognize that these are insistent imperatives to which it must respond (Parker, 1999). Proper and appropriate accountability through PM is a key strategy for maintaining quality as a significant aspect of care. HRM has become an increasingly significant player in the design, development, implementation and management of performance. This report has examined the critical elements of HRM's role in PM in the context of the hospital environment - an environment particularly focused on improving and managing performance.