Providers not the best bosses

If you're a healthcare employer, you're less likely to have your act together. That's the unflattering conclusion drawn by research on the leadership and management style of U.S. healthcare providers. Right now, job vacancy rates across the healthcare industry are the highest of any major U.S. industry, running at 3.7 percent, according to stats collected by HR research and consulting firm ISR. This may be because healthcare firms are not managed effectively, leaving employees with a sense of poor work-life balance, ISR researchers say.

ISR surveys 200,000 U.S. employees each year, establishing benchmarks for leadership and staff supervision. When ISR compared healthcare firms to U.S. and global high-performance benchmarks, it found that providers were ranked 12 percent below global leaders for leadership, and 8 percent below global leaders for staff supervision. To address these perceptions, healthcare providers must standardize management practices, ensure clear job roles and create patient-centered environments, researchers suggested.

Get more detail on the ISR research:
- see the press release

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