The staff at hospitals is strongly geared to occupational groups. The development of hospitals in the age of DRGs and quality management perspective, however, the benefits of traditional, largely oriented to occupational groups staff development and runs it into the opposite.
How can a successful staff development look like to help people in hospitals actually need to know their daily work competently and with joy by overcoming them? Is it possible to develop staff at all?
With the idea of an integrated staff development in the hospital gives the author of a valuable answer for two reasons: First, it provides the theoretical background for human resources in complex organizations, where he takes train loading on the contributions of psychology, sociology, business administration and education sciences, supplemented by the theoretical foundations of systems theory.

The work is founded with the Representation of the current state and prospects of an integrated staff development at the University Hospitals of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which were collected under a research project. Second, the suitability and feasibility of the idea of integrated staff development on practical example of a university hospital will be allocated.