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Journal of Professions and Organization
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ISSN (Print) 2051-8803 - ISSN (Online) 2051-8811
Published by Oxford University Press

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Explicit professionalism. A cross-level study of institutional change in
the wake of evidence-based practice
- Authors: Møller A.
  Abstract: This article shows how a new normative standard for public professionalism has evolved from the introduction of evidence-based practice in Danish child protective services. The concept of ‘theorization’ from institutional theory is discussed and applied as the main analytical lens to explore how new ideas are introduced, interpreted, and negotiated in the organizational field. Based on a cross-level ethnographic case study, the study traces the process of theorization and shows how actors are informed by local translations and theorizations as they challenge, negotiate and develop collective understandings in the field. Theorization is therefore conceptualized as a continuous multidirectional process of recursive intertwinement between field-level and organizational developments, which may or may not entail institutional change. The study also contributes to our understanding of changing forms of professionalism by proposing the concept ‘explicit professionalism’ as a way of capturing the new normative standard for public professional work that has evolved from the process of theorizing evidence-based practice. Explicit professionalism is both a descriptive concept and a normative ideal and, it is suggested, an important dimension of new forms of organizational and organizing professionalism, which can aid our understanding of related developments in different professional fields.
  PubDate: Wed, 15 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jpo/joz003
Complementary work in the hospital: How infection preventionists perceive
opportunities for cooperation with higher status physicians
- Authors: Rojas F; Thomas C, Mukherjee S, et al.
  Abstract: Social scientists and management scholars have tended to see workplace interaction through the lens of hierarchy. However, modern workplaces include many people who do not fit neatly into such hierarchies because their work is designed to assess, support, sanction, or monitor other workers who already have well-established positions. Motivated by this observation, we conducted interviews with 193 infection preventionists—healthcare workers whose job it is to work with higher status physicians to monitor and suppress healthcare-acquired infections—to assess how workers outside of existing hierarchies can integrate their work. Inductive analyses of these interviews suggest three strategies: deference; relying on bureaucracy’s routines and practices; and recruiting higher status confederates, which we call side-channeling. From these analyses, we introduce the concept of complementary work to describe labor that seeks to supplement existing workplace hierarchies.
  PubDate: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jpo/joz002

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