Question

What labor markets should be considered when recruiting to fill an opening for a housekeeping staff at a local hospital? What labor markets should be considered for staffing the chief surgeon for the local hospital?

Answer 1

At a local hospital, the labor market recruiting the,

• housekeeping staff will be industry and occupational labor market
• chief surgeon will be educational and technical labor market.

Step-by-step explanation:

Labor markets are classified according to the type of occupation, service, wages, and career.

Those occupations which can be performed by unskilled labor like housekeeping, janitor operators, maidservants, etc., belong to occupational or industry labor market. This requires more of physical work like a hospital housekeeping staff should clean the hospital premises, rooms, wards, make beds and replenish linens, furnishing etc.

Those occupations which can be performed only by skilled labor like surgeons, physicians, etc belong to the educational and technical labor market. They should be educationally qualified and technically skilled to perform these jobs like how a chief surgeon in the hospital performs major surgeries in the hospital.