ABSTRACT
Recruitment of well-trained, highly motivated, stable, and productive individuals is one of the most important functions a department chairman or program , administrator can discharge. The ability to recruit, train, and maintain a team of highly qualified professionals is critical to organizations that work smoothly and meet their performance goals and obligations. The process is particularly complicated during times of budgetary constraint, high patient demand, constant regulatory scrutiny, and an adversarial system that pits providers against one another, as well as the “suppliers of services” (health maintenance organizations [HMOs], large insurance companies, etc.) in a financially fluid and constantly shifting managerial environment (Burda, 1995).
