Multiple Forms of Professional Agency for (non)crafting of Work Practices in a Hospital Organization

Collin, Kaija; Paloniemi, Susanna; Vähäsantanen, Katja

doi:10.19154/njwls.v5i3a.4834

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“…Empirical researchers have questioned the validity of understanding these abstract models as empirical instances (Reay & Hinings 2009). There are also variations creating conflicts within the same institutional logic -through ongoing power games among various professional groups harboring diverging professional goals (Collin et al 2015), for example. Goodrick and Reay (2011) show how professional work can be guided over time by different logic constellations, and Waldorff et al (2013) explain that they can generate national differences within an industry.…”

Section: Conflicting Institutional Logics?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Professional Landscape: Entangled Institutional Logics in Two Swedish Welfare Professions

Alvehus

Andersson

2018

NJWLS

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Previous research has made three parallel but incompatible observations on the contemporary development of welfare professions: loss of professional autonomy, hybridization, and maintained autonomy. Yet, research providing contextual understanding of the simultaneous occurrence of these three observations is lacking. The aim of this theoretical paper is to identify and explain seemingly contradictory coexisting features of modern welfare professions through a comprehensive reading of current literature on the health care and teaching professions in Sweden. The literature has demonstrated entangled institutional logics, in which simultaneous but differing effects occur, thereby developing a new professional landscape.

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Section: Conflicting Institutional Logics?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Professional Landscape: Entangled Institutional Logics in Two Swedish Welfare Professions

Alvehus

Andersson

2018

NJWLS

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“…In their empirical research on agency at work (which takes the SCSC approach as a starting point), the researchers have conducted several qualitative studies on agency, concerning how it is enacted, resourced, and constrained, for example in the fields of education, health care, and the IT industry (Eteläpelto et al, 2015;Hökkä, Vähäsantanen and Mahlakaarto, 2017;. The understanding of agency within the approach applied has been further enriched by intervention studies, which have operated at individual, collective, and organisation levels in a complementary manner Collin, Paloniemi and Vähäsantanen, 2015).…”

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Emerging Conceptualisations on Professional Agency and Learning

Eteläpelto

2017

Professional and Practice-Based Learning

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Emerging conceptualisations on professional agency and learning This chapter provides an evaluative summary of the major contributions from the first section of this book, comprising conceptualisations on professional agency and work-related learning. The evaluation focuses on the differences, similarities, and strengths of the approaches and conceptualisations touched on. The focus is, first of all, on how the core meanings of agency and the agentic perspective are understood. Secondly, the approaches are addressed according to their view of how the contextual aspects of working life relate to agency. Thirdly, attention is given to the practical conclusions deriving from different understandings of agency. The present chapter thus elaborates how these understandings relate to work-related learning, and to the development of work practices. It further discusses the implications of the different conceptualisations of agency for future research, and for the development of agentic practices at work, with attention given also to lifelong career construction. On the basis of the summary, the chapter seeks to identify the most important gaps in current knowledge. These will require research on agency in work-related learning, and on individual lifelong career construction.

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“…In harmony with our explanation of coaches' work above, central to our conceptualisation of professional agency was and Collin, Paloniemi and Vähäsantanen's (2015) emphasis on the relationship between workers, their individual histories, unique context and future prospects. For these scholars, professional agency is not a static, unchangeable, personal attribute to be acquired, but rather a social and political process that individuals employ in relation to work-related issue and, moreover, undertake decision making and position-taking effecting their professional work and/or identity (Eteläpelto, Vähäsantanen, Hökkä & Paloniemi, 2013).…”

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Coaches as sport workers: professional agency within the employment context of elite European basketball

Purdy

Kohe

Paulauskas

2017

Sport, Education and Society

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Increased activity of multiple stakeholders (e.g., agents and owners) have created new challenges for some coaches working in professional sports clubs. The purpose of this project was to draw attention to the normative or accepted practices inherent in sport work, some of the day-to-day realities of some coaches working in this context, and to understand how coaches' perceptions of other stakeholders come to bear on their individual circumstances, career expectations/objectives and professional agency. Data were generated from semistructured interviews with seven professional basketball coaches who worked in top-level European clubs. The analysis reveals the coach's relationships between some owners and agents differed with respect to exercising professional agency, and, coach's decisions and actions were tied to their professional ideals as well as understandings of what they need to undertake their work effectively and negotiation and/or adjustment strategies. Occasionally coach's work practices could be viewed as antithetical to employment security, however, the presence of insecurity was at times embraced and used strategically to affect workers' career decisions. Amid contemporary regional geo-political shifts, this work aids examinations of global sport settings, structures and issues that may contour sporting professionals' lives.

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Multiple Forms of Professional Agency for (non)crafting of Work Practices in a Hospital Organization

Cited by 16 publications

References 48 publications

A New Professional Landscape: Entangled Institutional Logics in Two Swedish Welfare Professions

A New Professional Landscape: Entangled Institutional Logics in Two Swedish Welfare Professions

Emerging Conceptualisations on Professional Agency and Learning

Coaches as sport workers: professional agency within the employment context of elite European basketball

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