This article of the Director's Forum provides hospital pharmacy directors with an introduction to the essential human resources skills of behavioral interviewing and performance management. While patients are a pharmacy department's most valued asset, the staff that care for those patients are critical to a patient-centered pharmacy service. Hospital pharmacy directors must practice effective human resource management to effectively recruit and retain a highly qualified and professionally satisfied staff.
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