A Simple Matter of Control? NHS Hospital Nurses and New Management

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The influence of new public sector management on the National Health Service is examined, focusing on how nurses interpret management directives. Topics include traditional autonomy among nurses, physical division of labor, and the use of quality as a normative method of control.

Product quality, Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners, Offices of health practitioners, not elsewhere classified, Nurses, Management, Behavior, Medical care, Quality management, Medical care quality, United Kingdom. National Health Service, Nursing, Company business management

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Foucault, HRM and the ethos of the critical management scholar

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The application of Michel Foucault's philosophy to human resource management research is discussed.

Business Personnel Management, Analysis, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Foucault, Michel

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The changing roles of personnel managers: old ambiguities, new uncertainties

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An analysis of the personnel manager position in UK firms during the 1990s is provided.

Strategy & planning, Planning, Case studies, Practice, Influence, Organizational change, Human resource directors, Job analysis, Aims and objectives

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