A5091126154- Labor Movements and Unions
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Human Resource and Talent Management
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Organizational Downsizing and Restructuring
- Topic Modeling
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Educational Practices and Policies
- Public-Private Partnership Projects
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion
- Global Health Care Issues
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Social Policies and Family
King's College London
2009-2022
John Brown University
2022
Brown University
2022
King's College School
2022
The King's College
2006-2017
University of Washington
2017
University of Bern
2015
Summerland Research and Development Centre
2015
University of London
2006-2009
Cornell University
2008
Stephen Bach, Victor Sanh, Zheng Xin Yong, Albert Webson, Colin Raffel, Nihal V. Nayak, Abheesht Sharma, Taewoon Kim, M Saiful Bari, Thibault Fevry, Zaid Alyafeai, Manan Dey, Andrea Santilli, Zhiqing Sun, Srulik Ben-david, Canwen Xu, Gunjan Chhablani, Han Wang, Jason Fries, Maged Al-shaibani, Shanya Urmish Thakker, Khalid Almubarak, Xiangru Tang, Dragomir Radev, Mike Tian-jian Jiang, Alexander Rush. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting Association for Computational Linguistics: System...
New public management (NPM) has been the dominant orthodoxy in analysing service reform with major implications for employment relations. Drawing on comparative studies of OECD countries, including Australia, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Zealand, Norway, Sweden and United States, this article examines recent reforms human resource management. It refutes proposition that indicate convergence towards an NPM model argues 'varieties NPM' thesis is also unconvincing. Several...
This article introduces six national studies covering 11 countries of the EU-15, analysing impact government austerity measures on working conditions public employees and sector employment relations. It stresses how international financial markets supranational actors have altered dynamics relations in a traditionally considered sheltered from external forces. Nevertheless, remain distinctive compared to private sector. There has been increased unilateralism determination pay conditions,...
Abstract This article examines the growth of overseas nurse recruitment to UK and reviews a number explanations used by migration specialists explain these developments. It is argued that approaches provide an incomplete explanation industrial relations perspective enables integrated understanding mobility. By highlighting role state in source destination countries placing labour market institutions centre stage, more adequate account developed. Trends mobility indicate policy employer...
The complex division of labour in health care has encouraged the analysis occupational boundary disputes between separate professions. Less attention been directed at divisions individual groups but a context intensive sector workforce reform there growth lower status occupations. This article extends debate about occupations by exploring manner which nurses and healthcare assistants engage work to advance their interests. UK government's modernization agenda more prominent role for findings...
This article examines the reform of public services management in Europe drawing on material from Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. It considers limitations interpreting changing service employment relations terms a convergence towards new outlines an alternative interpretation these reforms.
ABSTRACT A prominent feature of the restructuring work in public services has been growing importance assistant roles. This article examines regulation teaching (TA) roles 10 primary schools. It entry into TA roles, structure and consequences for teachers assistants. The develops a series arguments to explain variations workforce between authorities
Abstract This article analyses developments in public service employment relations the UK and USA over last two decades that are associated with implementation of new management (NPM) style reforms. We examine performance management, patterns wage determination trade union responses to these Although there some similarities reform agenda, marked variations interpretation NPM reforms, which reflect differing administrative traditions malleability Keywords: comparative HRMemployment...
Abstract The B ig S ociety is an integral part of the coalition's plans for public service retrenchment, but it premature to dismiss as exclusively concerned with expenditure cuts and privatisation. signals government's ambition transform services rubric that being used shrink state undermine long‐standing systems employment relations. This article considers origins meaning then assesses its consequences provision workforce. integrally connected deficit reduction voluntary sector increased...
Abstract The impact of the financial crisis has reignited debate about scope and scale public sector restructuring its consequences for workforce in Britain. economic precipitated austerity measures concentrated on expenditure reductions with intention reducing deficit. Because pay bill comprises over half current spending, achieving deficit reduction major total workforce. This article assesses employment relations Britain identifies underlying continuities recent decades. Drawing...
Abstract : Throughout the 1980s, government ministers strongly advocated decentralization of pay determination in public services. Despite this exhortation, by end decade rates and salary structures were rarely determined at workplace level. This paper explores resilience national considers whether it will survive radical restructuring services initiated last few years. The analysis focuses mainly on health education services, arguing that distinctive organizational, occupational political...
The year 2001 in the UK was dominated by difficulties Labour government confronted developing a coherent programme of public‐sector modernization. This review examines recent developments public sector, focusing on attempts to involve private sector and its continuing reforms pay determination arrangements. It highlights tensions that this reform aroused as struggled respond recruitment retention problems widespread perceptions ‘crisis’.
This article examines role redesign in the National Health Service (NHS), which has been central to Labour government's modernisation agenda, focusing on of health care assistants (HCAs). Drawing data from two acute hospital trusts, this focuses variation HCA roles between indicating that there may not have a uniform expansion as HR agenda and most commentators suggest. Although curtailed registered nurses' direct care, are significant variations degree HCAs undertake ‘relief’, ‘substitute’...
Globalization has captured the imagination of politicians and policy-makers alike, become most widely used label to make sense profound economic, political social changes taking place in today’s world. Publication this book is be welcomed because it provides a very wide-ranging survey many important trends that impact on global health. The consists eighteen chapters written by internationally acknowledged specialists, divided into three parts. Part I, “The health consequences...
ABSTRACT This article analyses the main trends in nurse migration to UK and highlights importance of state policy as a major influence shaping employer utilisation migrant nurses. The introduction points‐based immigration system is considered, consequences for nurses, employers trade unions are examined.