Contradictory couplings: professional ideology in the organizational locales of nurse training

Article Abstract:

Nursing is a contemporary occupation which has developed an explicit 'professional project'. In the UK this has centred around an occupational ideology which stresses managerialism and credentialism. This occupational ideology comes into contradiction with older conceptions of professionalism which are couched in vocational terms. The vocational meaning is shown to be situated and reproduced in organizational locales which serve to undercut the managerialist and credentialist meanings. The focus of these cross-cutting meanings is the interpretation of a 'good nurse'. Using a 'negotiated order' perspective, focusing on 'contradictions' case study material suggests that there are important gaps between formal representations of the professionalism project and the actual, situated practice of 'nursing'. For trainee nurses these gaps are particularly apparent. In day-to-day organizational life they have to negotiate contradictory conceptions encountered in the diverse locales of ward work and nurse training. In addition, the different meanings may be encountered even in the same locales. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Human resource management, Nurses, Training, Professional workers, Professional employees

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Cognitive trails in strategic decision-making: linking theories of personalities and cognitions

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This article attempts to reveal Jungian personality types' cognitive biases through a strategic management framework. The four personality types seem to use distinct heuristics to gather data, to generate and to evaluate alternatives. The connected heuristics appear as cognitive trails. We propose that different personality types habitually use certain cognitive trails; consequently, they can fall prey to biases that lurk in these trails. Cognitive trails may include liked input, output, and operational biases. We present the results from a pilot study to illustrate some connections between personality types and biases. We also explore some implications for future research and for management practice. (reproduced by permission of the publisher)

Cognitive styles

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Political Hybrids: Tocquevillean Views on Project Organizations

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The article identifies specific modalities of control within project management: calculative, professional, and reputational, and how these are not post-modern or transformational forms but instead are similar to modalities represented in the works of Alexis de Tocqueville.

Models, Industrial project management, Project management, Influence, Political aspects, Comparative analysis, Criticism and interpretation, Tocqueville, Alexis de, Control (Psychology)

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