Gig Economy and the Transformation of Professional Boundaries in Healthcare

Naghieh, Ali

doi:10.1108/978-1-83867-603-220201010

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“…8,9 Recent developments include online agencies, which connect student nurses, technicians, health care assistants, etc., directly with hospitals or other health care institutions, or it may even resemble Uber-like applications that provide on-demand health care. 8 This may increase specific vulnerabilities concerning job insecurity, working conditions and working hours. 10,11 However, most of the literature on casual employment so far has disproportionately focused on analysing other sectors (e.g.…”

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“…Students who do casual work can help solve personnel shortages, 14 casual work in health care increases effective resource management and organisational competitiveness 15 and medical professionals have the advantage of being able to off-load their lower-skilled and monotonous tasks to casual workers, which frees up time to concentrate on more complex and intellectually challenging tasks. 8 But casual work also comes with a set of challenges for workers. In general, casual work (including temporary agency work) is associated with some powerful negative health-affecting consequences related to employment conditions, employment relations and work-task related characteristics.…”

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“…This has created a demand for casual nurses, technicians, health care assistants, etc. 8,9 Recent developments include online agencies, which connect student nurses, technicians, health care assistants, etc., directly with hospitals or other health care institutions, or it may even resemble Uber-like applications that provide on-demand health care. 8 This may increase specific vulnerabilities concerning job insecurity, working conditions and working hours.…”

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“…cleaning, transportation, retail and hospitality), while the health care and social sectors have been neglected. 8…”

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‘I’m a bit of an invisible worker’ – Health care and social sector students’ experiences of casual and temporary agency work

Hult,

Gevaert,

Rekola

et al. 2024

J Health Serv Res Policy

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Objectives In the wake of national and global personnel shortages, it is becoming increasingly common for students to undertake casual and temporary agency work in the health care and social sectors. This phenomenon can have both advantages and disadvantages for these workers. The objective of this study was to describe health care and social sector students’ experiences of such work. Methods Students currently undertaking casual work in the health care and social sector in Finland were recruited ( n = 28). Qualitative semi-structured interviews of these students were conducted in March to May 2021. The data were analysed using inductive content analysis. Results Respondents reported some positive aspects of casual work. In particular, they liked the freedom to choose the workplace and working times that suited them. However, respondents’ experiences were mostly negative. They perceived the induction into work as being insufficient, felt they had too few opportunities to give and receive feedback and believed they were not accepted into the working community. Conclusions Students who have bad experiences while undertaking causal work in the health care and social sectors may develop an aversion towards working in those sectors after graduating. In order to ensure the sectors are attractive to graduates, casual student workers’ induction and experience of the workplace must be improved.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…cleaning, transportation, retail and hospitality), while the health care and social sectors have been neglected. 8…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘I’m a bit of an invisible worker’ – Health care and social sector students’ experiences of casual and temporary agency work

Hult,

Gevaert,

Rekola

et al. 2024

J Health Serv Res Policy

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Fluid workforce management in the health sector: navigating the changing face of workforces and their management

Samaan,

Tursunbayeva

2024

IJPSM

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PurposeThis paper demystifies the fluid workforce phenomenon increasingly discussed in the circles of organizational innovators and explores the characteristic aspects of the fluid workforce in the healthcare sector.Design/methodology/approachWe analyze the concept and provide a generic review of definitions of a fluid workforce in relation to other similar concepts established in the academic and practitioner literature, contextualize the fluid workforce phenomenon in healthcare and distinguish relevant drivers and categories of fluid workers in this sector. We also discuss the implications of a fluid workforce for healthcare organizations, drawing on the health labor market and human resource management (HRM) practices frameworks.FindingsThe fluid workforce in healthcare is not new. Today’s main novelties are related to the wide diversity of types of fluid workforce that have emerged, the expanding scale of diffusion of the fluid workforce and the emergence of digital technologies to support HRM decisions. While a fluid workforce may provide solutions to address mismatches in the supply and demand of health workers, it can also worsen working conditions, increase dual practice and have implications for existing HRM practices.Originality/valueWe disentangle a novel term for the public sector, healthcare and HRM literature. We discern similarities and distinctions, presenting a framework for managing and analyzing this workforce at organizational and labor market levels in the healthcare sector. Acknowledging the challenges in estimating the existing fluid workforce labor market size, we offer practical methodologies to empirically estimate its prevalence within the healthcare industry and build an agenda for future research.

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Proposing a Method Based on Artificial Neural Network for Predicting Alignment between the Saudi Nursing Workforce and the Gig Framework

AL-Dossary,

Mayet,

Bhutto

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The goal of the present investigation is to assess the applicability of the Gig Economy Framework (GEF) to the nursing workforce in Saudi Arabia. In order to learn more about the viability of the gig economy paradigm for the nursing profession, this study employed a cross-sectional survey technique. The survey asked questions specific to the nursing profession in Saudi Arabia and the GEF, while also taking into account other relevant variables. This nurse survey was sent to 102 Saudi Arabian hospitals’ HR departments. After removing invalid and missing data, 379 responses remained. The gig economy’s impact on everyday living and professional growth differed significantly between groups. After processing the data, we inputted them into a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network to find relationships between responses to surveys and compatibility with the GEF. There were 20 inputs to this neural network and four possible outputs. The results of the network are the answers to questions about how the gig economy might affect four areas—life, financial management, and personal and professional comfort and development. Outputs 1–4 were predicted with 96.5%, 96.5%, 99.2%, and 99.2% accuracy, respectively. The primary issues with the nursing workforce in Saudi Arabia may be addressed with the use of gig economy elements. As a result, it is crucial to provide a trustworthy, intelligent strategy for foreseeing the gig economy’s framework’s alignment.

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Gig Economy and the Transformation of Professional Boundaries in Healthcare

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

‘I’m a bit of an invisible worker’ – Health care and social sector students’ experiences of casual and temporary agency work

‘I’m a bit of an invisible worker’ – Health care and social sector students’ experiences of casual and temporary agency work

Fluid workforce management in the health sector: navigating the changing face of workforces and their management

Proposing a Method Based on Artificial Neural Network for Predicting Alignment between the Saudi Nursing Workforce and the Gig Framework

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