HRM and Remote Health Workforce Sustainability

Reveals the critical influence of management practices for realizing remote health-workforce sustainability Moves the ongoing debate on high turnover of health professionals in remote regions from retention and turnover to workforce sustainability Includes evidence about workforce sustainability from health professionals and managers currently working in geographically remote regions

Leigh-ann Onnis is a researcher and lecturer at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, and has both a work and educational background in human resources and remote health service provision. Her research interests lie in workforce sustainability, remote health sector management, and Indigenous health.

Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: The remote context.- Chapter Three: The challenges of turnover and retention.- Chapter Four: Sustainable Remote Health Workforces.- Chapter Five: HRM theories and Policy Choices.- Chapter Six: Recruitment.- Chapter Seven: Remuneration.- Chapter Eight: Relationships.- Chapter Nine: Resourcing.- Chapter Ten: Management Practices.- Chapter Eleven: Practical Applications for I-HRM-SRHW.