The role of nurses' unions in workplace innovation in Australian and Canadian hospitals: Analysing union strategies

Stanton, Pauline; Bartram, Timothy; Bamber, Greg J.

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“…Through a narrative of protecting and advancing patient care, the Victorian branch of the ANMF has been able to establish mandated nurse patient ratios in public hospitals which help control nurse workloads (Buchan, 2005; Thomas and Chaperon, 2013). The professional identity of nurses also leads to strong collective workplace action where nurse union members internalise and police the rules on a day-to-day basis (Stanton, Bartram and Bamber, 2022). We argue that the union has a role to play in identity work of medical scientists.…”

Section: Professional Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Health-sector unions in Australia are often wedded to the centralised pay bargaining process more so than other forms of participation and collaboration as this is the domain where they have most power and influence (O'Donoghue et al, 2011). The success of this centralised approach can be seen (in the case of the ANMF) in the adoption of legally enforceable nurse patient ratios in the State (Stanton et al, 2022; Thomas et al, 2013).…”

Section: Union Strategy and Professional Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We argue that professional identity is critical to the development and enhancement of union narratives (possibly in a recursive way) especially in the healthcare sector where professional groups and unions are often the same organisation (e.g., ANMF, AMA). Clearly unions such as the ANMF and AMA have been able to appeal to the wider purpose of protecting quality of patient care to build their powerful narratives and extend their associational power and improve bargain outcomes (Bartram et al, 2020; Cregan et al, 2009; Stanton, Bartram and Bamber, 2022). However, an important strategic capability of unions is whether they can frame their narratives in ‘the context of power relations where other actors have greater or lesser degrees and types of capability and other sources of power’ (Lévesque and Murray, 2013: 794).…”

Section: Union Strategy and Professional Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A strong professional identity in health care is often associated with strong unions, for example, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Association (ANMF) and the Australian Medical Association (AMA), who have powerful narrative capabilities, long and established professional values, and community respect and support. We see evidence of how unions such as the ANMF have leveraged professional identity to develop narratives within the workplace as a tool to support member commitment and activism, and garner community support for industrial campaigns (Buchan, 2005; Cregan et al, 2009; Stanton et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Medical science an undervalued profession: Strengthening professional identity through union strategy

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This paper examines the factors that have led to the undervaluing of the medical science profession and how a union can take a strategic approach to strengthen the professional identity of its membership to overcome challenges. We draw on interviews with union officials and managers and focus groups with medical scientists in four health services in Victoria, Australia. Drawing on the union strategy literature, we argue that professional identity is related in a recursive way to the attitudinal context and the narrative capabilities of the union. We found that first, many medical scientists believed that medical science was invisible and undervalued contributing to a weak professional identity due to underlying structural and institutional factors. Second, this has been exacerbated by the attitudinal context in which the profession has been subordinated to the other stronger professions of doctors and nurses. Third, we report the union is attempting to strengthen the professional identity of medical scientists through developing union campaigns with a narrative around work intensification and the critical nature of medical science work. Union strategy underpinned by union campaigns seeks to transform medical scientists’ attitudinal context by harnessing their sense of associational power through narrative capabilities to strengthen professional identity.

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The role of nurses' unions in workplace innovation in Australian and Canadian hospitals: Analysing union strategies

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Medical science an undervalued profession: Strengthening professional identity through union strategy

Medical science an undervalued profession: Strengthening professional identity through union strategy

Algorithmic human resource management: toward a functional affordance perspective

Motivating for Innovating: Examining the Relationship Between Regulatory Focus and Workplace Innovation

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