Sökning: "Professionals and the New Public Management"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 37 avhandlingar innehållade orden Professionals and the New Public Management.
1. Performance Management, Rationality and Participation in Public Sector Organisation
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis critically examines the role of performance management in public sector organisations. In particular, it explores how performance management relates to different concepts of rationality (instrumental, value and communicative), including issues around rationality and power, and the relationship between these concepts and various models of participation and democracy. LÄS MER
2. Understanding quality improvement in care: The case of public care procurement and process mining
Sammanfattning : Healthcare is facing challenges of increased cost and complexity originating from factors such as new technology and diversified treatments, increased life expectancy, an ageing population, and multi-comorbidity, making the need for Quality Improvement (QI) in care highly relevant. This is, however, easier said than done, considering that healthcare is complex, dynamic, ad-hoc, and multidisciplinary. LÄS MER
3. Conceptions, conflicts and contradictions in the introduction of a Swedish Health Call Centre
Sammanfattning : Call centres have been called the industrialisation of the service sector, characterised by mon¬o¬¬tonous, highly controlled work and standardised procedures performed in an old-fashion¬ed, Tayloristic spirit. Stress and work intensification are known implications of such work. LÄS MER
4. Professionals and the New Public Management - Multi professional teamwork in psychiatric care
Sammanfattning : This study examines the cooperative work of several professions in Swedish multi-professional teams in child and adolescent psychiatric open care units in an environment of strong economic and efficiency controls resulting from the so-called New Public Management (NPM) reforms. Previous studies indicate teamwork is a network of semi-independent professionals who tend to represent their professional organisations and groups despite sharing a mutual interest in the patients. LÄS MER
5. Job satisfaction and emotional work tasks : dentists in Sweden and Denmark
Sammanfattning : Avhandlingen består av två studier som utgår från projektet ”Det goda arbetet”. Det överordnade syftet med projektet Det Goda Arbetet var att använda tandvård som ett exempel på ett arbete där relationerna med patienterna utgör arbetets kärna. LÄS MER