Human Resourcing in Healthcare: Strategizing Principles

The problem field of healthcare staffing is a highly relevant area for research efforts in strategizing. This study featured the human resource potential of the domestic healthcare system in a national and regional contexts. The theory and methodology of strategizing developed by Professor Vladimir L. Kvint made it possible to trace some indicators of human resourcing potential in the healthcare sector, i.e., age, regional structure, reproduction of labor-power, etc. Effective strategizing depends on the patterns that kept repeating since the beginning of the century. The research revealed the key principles of personnel strategizing in healthcare. First, constant high-quality monitoring helps to follow the changes in the patterns of reproduction of human resources, including regional specifics. Second, global trends in healthcare, e.g., digitalization, optimize the work and increase its efficiency. Third, personnel strategizing takes into account current and projected changes in morbidity, technological development, unexpected challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, etc. Fourth, healthcare strategizing needs accounting, identification, instrumentalization, and institutionalization of factors that contribute to the growth of human resources. Fifth, strategizing in this sphere requires coordination with human resourcing in other industries, especially those connected with intellectual labor. Finally, attraction, retraining, and advanced training of foreign specialists and students are of great importance for effective strategizing.