You were recently hired as the Director of
Health Information Management (HIM). Among your
first official acts was the hiring of an assistant director. On the
first morning of your fourth week on the job, two of your new
employees came to you with a complaint. They said they just
discovered they were working 40 hours per week, but the other
employees in the department, five in all-were working only 37 ½
hours. This was the first you had heard of anything less than a
40-hour week. You questioned the other employees one by one. You
learned that the former director, who had been there many years,
hired the entire department with a promise of a 37 ½ hour work
week. You told each employee, as you felt you must, that the basic
workweek throughout the hospital is 40 hours, and there is no
policy that states HIM is entitled to operate on the basis of a
shorter workweek. Your employees agreed that nothing was ever
written down about a 37 ½ hour work week, but each claimed that
this was promised orally as a condition of employment. All of them
insisted that the hospital is honor-bound to observe what is
apparently an unwritten policy established by the former Director.
As one employee put it, “this place has always had a pretty good
reputation as an employer, and I didn’t think we had to have
everything in writing”. Respond to the questions listed below.
Submit one (1) single Microsoft Word document (a minimum of 250 words) . Use APA format for any references used.
Questions:
What are you going to do about the predicament in which you find yourself as the new Director of HIM?
Will you advocate to keep the schedule as is or would you enforce the federal mandate of 40 work hours per week?
Who would you involve in order to devise the most appropriate solution to your problem? Explain why?
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