The notion of empowerment has been increasingly used within management discourses in
recent years. Enthusiastic supporters conceive it as an acknowledgement of the individual …

Purpose–A recurring theme in Government policy documents has been the need to change
the culture of the NHS in order to deliver a service “fit for the twenty‐first century”. However …

Purpose–The primary purpose of this paper is to critically explore managers' experience of
work identity in the National Health Service (NHS). Design/methodology/approach–This …

This article seeks to explore the construction of group and professional identities in
situations of organizational change. It considers empirical material drawn from a health …

This paper focuses on the relation of systems of ethics to the fabrication of medical power.
After a brief consideration of the role of ethical cultivation in clinical medicine, the main body …

This thesis explores identity work employed to secure stability and coherence of self-identity.
This is achieved through an exploration of professionals becoming managers' experiences …

Increasing attention has been paid in both public administration and organizational theory to
understanding how physicians assume a 'hybrid'role as they take on managerial …

Recent reform of the healthcare sector in New Zealand involved the corporatization of public
hospitals, and the contractualization of social relations between and within institutions …

Purpose–Aims to illustrate how the use of a social identity approach can help to refine our
understanding of how organizational professionals experience the introduction of …

Addresses the issue of empowerment and its possible role in promoting the effectiveness of
health services. Empowerment represents the ability of people within organisations to use …