Maintaining Places of Social Inclusion: Ebola and the Emergency Department

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The Organizational Atmosphere in Israeli Hospital during COVID-19: Concerns, Perceptions, and Burnout

“…Recent research’s findings thus far show widespread fear of infection among healthcare workers, leading to higher levels of stress [ 16 ]. Routine work becomes more stressful when resources for patient care are insufficient in the context of high infection rates [ 17 ]. Likewise, negative perceptions of workers’ organizational support during the pandemic were linked to stress symptoms and concern for personal and family health [ 18 ].…”

What Is “This” a Case of? Generative Theorizing for Disruptive Times

“…"This" as a "threat to places of social inclusion" or site for "social symbolic work". Wright et al (2020) article in Administrative Science Quarterly "Maintaining places of social inclusion: Ebola and the emergency department" was already advanced in the review process before the pandemic hit. However, it is a wonderful example of a conceptual framework of great relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

“…However, it is a wonderful example of a conceptual framework of great relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic. Wright et al (2020) introduce and elaborate on the notion of a "place of social inclusion" which they describe as a kind of physical location that is institutionally endowed with resources, meaning and values associated with inclusion-i.e., a place where it is taken for granted that everyone has access. In their study, the place of social inclusion considered is the emergency room in the Australian health care system, where it is understood that everyone has a right to come for care.…”

Professional Values and Managerialist Practices: Values work by nurses in the emergency department

“…Wright et. al.’s (2017) study, for example, focused on how emergency physicians engage in values work to maintain the values of the medical profession in their everyday situated interactions with other specialists, with a later study highlighting values work during the Ebola pandemic (Wright et al, 2020). Gill and Burrow (2018) explored how the value of haute cuisine is maintained at the micro level through the values work of chefs experiencing fear.…”

“…In a changing world of professional work, scholars have recently called attention to the importance of values work undertaken by individual professionals to live out the values of professions in their everyday work inside organizations (Kraatz, Flores, & Chandler, 2020; Wright, Meyer, Reay, & Staggs, 2020; Wright, Zammuto, & Liesch, 2017) and the challenges of accomplishing values in contexts with competing managerialist values and priorities (Chatelain-Ponroy, Mignot-Gérard, Musselin, & Sponem, 2018; Croft, Currie, & Lockett, 2015; Kraatz, Ventresca, & Deng, 2010). Professions emerged historically as societal-level institutions that were committed to the values of using expert knowledge and autonomy to act for the interests of clients and for the greater good of society (Abbott, 1988).…”