کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5046850 | 1475999 | 2016 | 8 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
- To provide understanding of doctor managers' identity work in the Spanish NHS.
- To examine role-meanings as the source of doctor managers'different role identities.
- To extend theory on manager-professionals' identity work in the health context.
- To explain why the term leadership rather than management is adopted by DMs.
- To consider certain issues when training doctors to engage in management.
This study examines “identity work” among hybrid doctor-managers (DMs) in the Spanish National Health System to make sense of their managerial roles. In particular, the meanings underlying DMs experience of their hybrid role are investigated using a Grounded Theory methodology, exposing distinctions in role-meanings. Our findings provide evidence that using different social sources of comparison (senior managers or clinicians) to construct the meaning of managerial roles leads to different role-meanings and role identities, which are the source of the two established types of DM in the literature, the reluctant and the enthusiast. The contribution is twofold: our findings lead us to theorize DMs' identity work processes by adding an overlooked role-meaning dimension to identity work; and raise practical reflections for those who wish to develop enthusiast doctor managers.
Journal: Social Science & Medicine - Volume 170, December 2016, Pages 18-25