Temporary agency work in the Finnish health care sector. Greater flexibility and freedom in the workplace?

Autor/inn/en	Palukka, Hannele; Tiilikka, Tiina
Titel	Temporary agency work in the Finnish health care sector. Greater flexibility and freedom in the workplace?
Quelle	In: Work organisation labour & globalisation, 5 (2011) 1, S. 110-126 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745-641X; 1745-6428
DOI	10.13169/workorgalaboglob.5.1.0112
Schlagwörter	Sozialer Faktor; Gesundheitswesen; Arbeitszeitflexibilität; Leiharbeit; Berufliche Autonomie; Leiharbeitnehmer; Zeitarbeit; Krankenschwester; Selbstbestimmte Arbeit; Arzt; Finnland
Abstract	"This article explores the views of temporary agency workers on their positions and roles in Finnish health care organisations. lt aims to answer the question of how agency doctors and nurses perceive the content and social dimensions of agency work as well as their exercise of self-determination in agency work. The article is based on a questionnaire survey carried out in 2006, which found that agency employment in the health care sector is regarded as a flexible way of working that allows for considerable freedom. Doctors, in particular, have made the conscious choice to take up agency work, which fits in well with their personal life situations. However, there are definite limits to agency work that do not always favour the young worker or the patient. Agency employment does not provide adequate opportunities for guidance and support. Furthermore, young doctors and nurses do not have enough influence over the design of patient care. Even though flexible agency work is a voluntary choice for many health care professionals, it is necessary to ask whether it severs the connections with previous experiences and circumstances on which practical health care provision is based." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch; Befragung. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2006 bis 2006.
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2012/3