Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject Leadership and Human Resource Management - Miscellaneous, , course: Ph.D, language: English, abstract: Today the competitive ability of a healthcare sector gets defined by its ability to manage its healthcare workers. Health workers management and its usage has become a crucial function of healthcare organizations. In such a scenario, people who are engaged in health sector have become more sought after and are likely to stay in demand in near future too. Healthcare is undergoing major changes as a result of a multitude of factors, including rapidly changing technology, unprecedented access to information, cost pressures, globalization and global changes, changing demographics and new levels and forms of competition among healthcare organizations. Our society has seen repeated examples of the impact of natural and man-made threats, and we recognize that we will face severe staffing shortages with the confluence of the aging of the population and of the healthcare workforce.The present study started as an exploration based upon secondary data, collected from research papers and various articles from academicians working on similar subject. The inferences have been drawn from purposive conversation held with the people engaged in delivering healthcare services ranging from medical professionals to paramedical staff working in different public and private hospitals of select district of Punjab.