 Labour relations in health services managementKeith Barnard and Stephen Harrison Social Science & Medicine, 1986, vol. 22, issue 11, 1213-1228 Abstract: 'Labour relations' or 'industrial relations' refers to employer-employee relations which are both economic as in matters of pay and conditions, and managerial, i.e. the political relationships between management and employees, collectivized through trade unions and professional associations. This paper traces the development of managerial relationships as illustrated by experiences in the British National Health Service particularly over the past 20 years focusing on groups of actors--management (within which may be distinguished government and local managers), health professional workers and other workers--whose interactions need to be studied if managerial relations within health services are to be satisfactorily analysed. We conclude that, although until recently, developments in management have had little impact upon worker behaviour outside unskilled groups, changing economic and other circumstances could create the conditions in which stronger managerial control over professional workers might emerge. Date: 1986 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:22:y:1986:i:11:p:1213-1228 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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