1. BUS115 Introduction To Business
Answers:
According to several authors such as Roncarolo et al., (2017), people who live in different
rural areas are facing various challenges because of their geographic isolation and they are
also experiencing poorer health results compared to people who are living in a major city.
The struggle in retaining and attracting skilled and experienced health professionals is one
of the main contributing factors in such health inequality. The decisions of the health
professionals to leave or to stay in a rural area included with social, spatial, and
organizational aspects. The main purpose of this article is to focus more on workforce
challenges and needs in the health sector. The author applied the qualitative research
method and descriptive analysis for conducting this research paper. While the current
health workforce models or frameworks recognize the interrelated and multidimensional
influences on retention, these are sometimes very much complex and they do not support
the development of several strategic actions easily. The dynamic HS framework is very
much important for human resource management of any health organization and it mainly
highlights three major domains, place/community, workplace/organizational, and
role/career. The important pre-conditions to improve retention through personal
satisfaction and strengthening job levels have been decided under each of the domains. A
dynamic HS framework was created for realizing all challenges of a health organization.
Employee retention is greatly related to job satisfaction and the main responsibility of
human resource management is to provide intrinsic and extrinsic rewards for motivating all
employees. After conducting several research, the author stated that human resource
management should take proper initiatives for retaining experienced and skilled employees
in health sectors. The framework helps to articulate preconditions for retention and it also
delivers a new approach that addresses workforce retention in health organizations. The
author also stated that there is a limited opportunity for a small-sized allied health
workforce in remote and rural health services. For improving the opportunities of allied
health and nursing professionals, huge investment and improvement of human resource
management strategies have been strongly recommended in this article.
Martin, F., et al. (2020). A systematic review of adaptive learning research designs, context,
strategies, and technologies from 2009 to 2018. Educational Technology Research and
Development 68,1903–1929. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09793-2
2. According to different authors such Martin et al. (2020), human resource management plays
an important role in managing the workforce and health professionals in a health
organization. The main role of human resource management is to ensure high-quality health
services for patients. They make various strategies for offering quality services to the
patients by setting the standards for different ethical practices and addressing all healthcare
trends. So, the human resource management department is very much important for all
health organizations. By defining collaborative approaches and training in healthcare
organizations and implementing various workplace rules, the human resource department
can improve workplace efficiency. The authors applied the qualitative research method for
conducting this research article and total 61 research papers were analysed to complete
this article. According to the authors, human resource management is very much important
for maintaining the sustainable performance of the organization. This article will help to
focus more on adaptive learning strategies, technologies and contexts. A conceptual
framework was also created to understand how to implement and influence human
resource management to take several approaches to promote adaptive learning programs
for the person-fit training among health workers. The workplace environment accounts for
a greater proportion of health expenditure in many healthcare settings and staff shortage
has become the most serious matter in health organizations. There are so many
professionals who are continuously providing different physical rehabilitation services and
these services are included with physicians, certified and licensed health care experts, or
professionals. The Allied health care experts share responsibilities for ensuring that the
responsibilities are carried out appropriately by the facility department or clinic. For this, it
is very much necessary to recruit experienced health care experts in health care
organizations. The nursing personnel and healthcare professionals are capable of
evaluating, continuing, and establishing systems for quality assurance and risk
management. The Allied healthcare professionals are the main source of information from
which different programs can be developed.
Peng, Ma, & Spector, (2019) Personalized adaptive learning: an emerging pedagogical
approach enabled by a smart learning environment. Smart Learn. Environ. 6, 9
(2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40561-019-0089-y
According to Peng, Ma & Spector, (2019), professional socialization, professional identity,
and professionalism are sometimes used in the health sector with different conflicting
definitions. The main objective of this article is to understand the core concepts of
professional identity and adaptive learning. The conflicting definitions may lead to
assumptions and misunderstandings that can create confusion among the health care
workers. The author used a qualitative research approach and personalized adaptive
learning framework for completing this research article. The authors displayed similarities
and differences between adaptive learning and personalized learning. The framework helps
to realize all important aspects such as professional identity, ethics, group identity, and
knowledge values. Healthcare organizations are facing several challenges to delivering
3. improved services for the patients and for this, the organizations are trying to shape their
workplace. It is very much necessary for health workers to have proper skills and training
because it can improve their performance. One of the main effective processes to enhance
the efficiency of the health workers is through constant development, person-fit training,
and retraining. A person-fit training helps to customize different training programs
according to the needs of the workers to provoke their interest and retain. Sometimes, the
Allied health workers feel motivational, emotional, and psychological burnout during
several crisis situations and for this, adaptive learning processes can be used. Modern
healthcare organizations are improving their performance and for this reason, people
demand that the organizations will provide effective professional services to all patients.
The adaptive learning process helps to optimize healthcare training by decreasing
unconscious incompetence and it performs this through the formative assessment method.
So, the human resource personnel can introduce an adaptive learning process to educate all
of the Allied Health experts in healthcare organizations.
Liu, M., McKelroy, E., Corliss, S. B., & Carrigan, J. (2017). Investigating the effect of an
adaptive learning intervention on students’ learning. Educational technology research and
development, 65(6), 1605-1625. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11423-017-
9542-1
According to different authors such as Liu et al., (2017), adaptive learning can identify
knowledge gap among new health workers or medical students and the main characteristic
of all health experts’ work is emotionally and physically demanding. The authors used the
mixed method and standardized data coding form to extract several information or data.
The findings of this research article helps to represent that adaptive learning method can
improve the knowledge and skills of the health students. The person-fit training or
personalized courses target the knowledge gap of each employee for improving their skills.
Removing unconscious incompetence among the workers and identifying this among new
joiners during the onboarding process can improve healthcare results. The workers will
also feel more confident that can improve employee satisfaction and patient care. The
human resource management can organize person-fit programs for health workers as the
HR department of any healthcare organization are responsible to manage and recruit
experienced health workers. Different types of evaluation tests can be conducted for
assessing the efficiency of the employees. Different popular healthcare organizations are
implementing adaptive learning processes and their outstanding employee training
programs help to improve the performance of the employees and organizations. The
adaptive learning process addresses individual needs through feedback, resources, and
pathways.
Melnikovas, A. (2018). Towards an explicit research methodology: Adapting research onion
model for futures studies. Journal of Futures Studies, 23(2), 29-44.
https://jfsdigital.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/03-Melnikovas-Onion-Research-
Model.pdf
4. According to various authors such as Melnikovas, (2018), the adaptive learning process
helps to provide detailed instructions to all health professionals by adopting various tools
and contents and the adaptive learning process has different complexity levels. The main
aim of this research article is to evaluate the effectiveness of the adaptive learning process
in improving behavior, competence, and knowledge in health experts. The author had
utilised explicit methodology and research onion framework for conducting this article. The
adaptive learning process provides focused attention on individuals and it also provides
personalized feedback. Apart from this, adaptive learning uses different algorithms to
habituate itself with learner’s needs based on the responses and tasks. Adaptive learning
can be defined as a technology-driven process that helps to analyze the performance of a
learner in real-time and this learning process upgrades teaching methods based on several
data or information. The human resource management can easily promote this learning
process in the workplace and it will be a great opportunity for all Allied Health
Professionals. Adaptive learning is a personalized approach that helps the new health
professionals to achieve skills and more knowledge on different important concepts. This
learning process uses a confidence-based assessment method to test the understanding of
all learners and this method gathers various information through several modules and that
information is used to fulfill personalized objectives or goals. The effective training of the
healthcare professionals must be done properly for identifying their weaknesses and
strengths. Targeting and identifying unconscious incompetence is critical to optimize
healthcare training as a lack of proper skills among health experts or workers can put the
patients at a risk and it may lead to serious problems that cannot be fixed. The department
of human resource management must take proper initiatives to promote an adaptive
learning process among the health workers. Actually, the main objective of workers'
person-fit training programs is to ensure team approach and individual understanding with
shared skills, attitudes, and knowledge towards management or prevention of these
conditions. In rural areas, it can be noticed that the people are not getting effective
healthcare services and the main reason is a shortage of experienced health experts. So, to
overcome these barriers, it is very much necessary for human resource management to
introduce an adaptive learning process for all health workers to improve their knowledge
and skills.
References
Liu, M., McKelroy, E., Corliss, S. B., & Carrigan, J. (2017). Investigating the effect of an
adaptive learning intervention on students’ learning. Educational technology research and
development, 65(6), 1605-1625. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11423-017-
9542-1
Martin, F., et al. (2020). A systematic review of adaptive learning research designs, context,
strategies, and technologies from 2009 to 2018. Educational Technology Research and
Development 68,1903–1929. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09793-2
5. Melnikovas, A. (2018). Towards an explicit research methodology: Adapting research onion
model for futures studies. Journal of Futures Studies, 23(2), 29-44.
https://jfsdigital.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/03-Melnikovas-Onion-Research-
Model.pdf
Peng, Ma, & Spector, (2019) Personalized adaptive learning: an emerging pedagogical
approach enabled by a smart learning environment. Smart Learn. Environ. 6, 9
(2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40561-019-0089-y
Roncarolo, F, et al. (2017). What do we know about the needs and challenges of health
systems? A scoping review of the international literature. BMC health services research,
17(1), 636. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2585-5
