... formal management positions. Four consultants were located in Dublin hospitals while the remainder worked in a variety of urban and rural settings outside Dublin. Social environment Consultants Medical personnel Work identity Ireland The aim of the study was to explore the social...

... . Huxham , C. (2005), Managing to Collaborate: The Theory and Practice of Collaborative Advantage , Routledge , London . Kirpal , S. (2004), “ Work identities of nurses: between caring and efficiency demands ”, Career Development International , Vol. 9 No. 3 , pp. 274 ‐ 304...

... professional groups. Monica Skjøld Johansen can be contacted at: monicsjo@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Work identity Doctors Nurses Norway In Norway, as in other Western countries, several reforms have been introduced in the Public Health Services during the last...

... be contacted at: ruth.mcdonald@manchester.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Nurses Primary care Work identity As part of a general trend towards the shifting of chronic condition management from secondary to primary care (Charles‐Jones et al., 2003), practice nurses...

...Mark Learmonth; Jane Mischenko 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 paper is unconventional in that it uses an auto‐ethnographic approach and poetry...

... to mitigate the transformational and reconstitutive effects of a discourse of empowerment aimed at achieving this change. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Work identity Empowerment Primary care National Health Service Organizational culture The NHS Plan, published in July 2000...