Human resourcing in Pharmacy

 

Human resourcing in Pharmacy

Introduction

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Pharmacists represent the third largest group of healthcare professionals in the world with most pharmacists practicing in community pharmacies, hospitals and other medical facilities (Chan X, 2006). Smaller numbers of pharmacists are employed in the pharmaceutical industry, in administrative/managerial positions and in academia. The size of the labor force depends on several issues, including the number in the labor market of working age, participation rate of those who are working, and availability of those no longer working but who may return to pharmacy employment.

Studies conducted

The relationship between Human Capital Management(HRM) and Human resource(HR) in pharmaceutical sector is to make understand the importance of HRM in an organization to perform its operations efficiently and at what level HR outsourcing is affecting it. In a proper organization Human resource outsourcing has positive impact on human resource management in order to the organization to perform its operations more efficiently. (Rana, et al., 2011)

In another study Human resourcing plays a major role in the efficient supply management of medicines accurately. Human resourcing skills is needed to quantifying needs for medicines in ordering, receiving and storing medications appropriately, recording medicine inventories and distributing medications for the use appropriately (Matowe, et al., 2008).

Students must have good interpersonal skills in order to apply their clinical knowledge and skills. Across the country, pharmacy schools must evaluate the quantity and quality of management skills instruction, including experiential education, in their curricula. The goal of this article is to explain how to include business and people management abilities into a student's advanced pharmacy practice experience, as well as how to develop and use these skills in a community pharmacy (Calomo, 2006).

Conclusion

Increases in recruitment and retention, as well as reductions in attrition, will be necessary to maintain and expand the future pharmacy workforce. Scaling up the global pharmacy workforce, on the other hand, is a multifaceted task that necessitates coordinated action. More research is needed into feminization, decreasing demand for postgraduate training, graduate trends, job satisfaction and the impact of pharmacy technicians, and how effective existing interventions are at expanding the pharmacy workforce, using prospective and comparative methods rather than surveys. There is a need for more coordinated monitoring and modeling of the pharmacy workforce around the world (Hawthorne & Anderson, 2009).

 

 

Bibliography

Chan X. and Wuliji T. (2006), International Pharmaceutical Federation, Global pharmacy workforce and migration report.

Calomo, J. M., 2006. Teaching Management in a Community Pharmacy. The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, , 70(2), pp. 41-41.

Hawthorne, N. & Anderson, C., 2009. The global pharmacy workforce: a systematic review of the literature. Human Resources for Health, , 7(1), pp. 48-48.

Matowe, L. et al., 2008. A strategy to improve skills in pharmaceutical supply management in East Africa: the regional technical resource collaboration for pharmaceutical management. Human Resources for Health, , 6(1), pp. 30-30.

Rana, T. M., Syed, Q. A. Z., Muhmmad, S. & Herani, G. M., 2011. The Impact of Human Capital Outsourcing on Human Capital Management Practices in Karachi Pharmaceutical Industry. [Online]
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Comments

  1. Sachini Mahaulpatha18 December 2021 at 08:23

    An organization's most valuable resource is its human capital. As a result, when it comes to managing human resources, it is critical that the organization employs the appropriate tools and approaches. You have articulated this really well by considering your own industry as an example. Thank you for sharing this interesting article with us.

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  2. Mohan Abeysinghe18 December 2021 at 08:46

    This is very useful article for all small-scale organizations. In a pharmacy few employees will be there to run the day operation and they are well experienced and knowledge people. If HRM is not apply to the business properly it will be difficult to manage the business. Because without experience employee it is very difficult to work in a pharmacy. if HRM well stablish in place of work, all employees will work in good environment. All scale types business needs human resources management. Thanks for sharing this article.

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