Organisational Behaviour Flashcards
(117 cards)
Identify the increasing pressures in healthcare
- Social Cultural Pressures
- Financial Economic Pressures
- Technological Pressures
- Public and Political Turmoil
Identify the healthcare trends
- From mono- to multidisciplinary practices
- From supply centered to client centred
- From intramural to extramural services
- From single organisational and practices to networks
Dimensions of professionalism
Unique expertise
Authority
Autonomy
Unique expertise
Professionalism is about applying general, scientific knowledge to specific cases.
- Complex (scientific) knowledge and functional knowledge (reflective skills), both explicit (from papers) and tacit knowledge (from experience)
- Beneficial for society
Authority
- Legitimate power (professional are trusted)
- Based on knowledge: someone who has more knowledge than you
- Based on legal, organisational, professional, personal status
- Authority must be earned by actions
Autonomy
The quality and state of being independent and self-directing, especially in decision making.
Enabling professionals to exercise judgement as they see fit during the performance of their job
Professional autonomy
- individual or group
- Liberty: independence from controlling influences
- Agency: capacity for intentional action
- it is about privilege and ability of self governance
- the state of being independent and self-directing, in decision making
Types of autonomy
Political autonomy
Economical autonomy
Clinical autonomy
- Focussed on the process
- Focussed on content
Different views on classic professionalism
- A list of traits and behaviours
- As a role played in society
- As a social construction
- As a means and affect of social control
Professionalism as a list of traits and behaviours
Of the profession
Organized professional group that defines:
- Standards of training
- Criteria of competence
- Quality criteria
- A code of ethic
- Has exclusive rights to perform certain tasks
Of a professional
- Specialised knowledge
- Altrustic (trying to do whats best)
- Reflexivity (reflect on what they do)
Professionalism as a role played in society
Professions have certain traits and behaviours because of the function they have for the society, they are expected to act in the public interest
The important function comes with certain rights (self regulation) -> Social contract based on trust
Medical professionality
The values, behaviours and relationships with the society that support and justifies the trust people have in doctors
Professionalism as a social construction
- Political perspective: professionals secure a monopoly by carving out a domain, using specific tactics.
- Professions compete with each other for jurisdictional control
- Professional clashes: differences in professional identities
What constitutes evidence
Safe practise
Quality
The use of standard pathways
Importance of teamwork - Boundary work
Boundary work
The range of activities by which professionals seek to lay claim to particular fields of knowledge and to assert their jurisdiction over particular tasks in the face of competition from other professional groups
As a means and affect of social control
The link between power and control and large societal inequities
- The process of professionalization as a means of controlling ‘knowledge production’. Professionals have the power to define and control what is true for example in what constitutes health, sickness and treatment
How do professional identities develop?
Through socialization: construction of the professional identity
- It is not a straightforward process, but rather an on going series
deprofessionalisation
the loss of the unique traits of a profession; autonomy, monopoly, authority
Proletarisation
Loss of power and status
Post professionalism
Loss of exclusiveness of knowledge and skills
the end of professionalism?
Increasing entanglement of professionals and the organizations they work for: professionals are increasingly inhabited by the organization
yet, the guidelines and indicators are invented by the profession, the professional can often deviate, the professional can work around the system
reconfiguration of professionalism
Professionalism changes in terms of form, shape and meaning in the light of societal changes
Professional hybridization
This term refers to situations where a qualified professional holds a position that involved management duties and responsibilities
Connective professionalism
- Expertise, authority and autonomy become relational and procedural
- Not fixed and closed, but constructed and reconstructed with others
- Co-design, share, earning trust
- Are seen as effective, optimal and legitimate
Two types of expertise
Relational expertise
Adaptive expertise