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The organisation: a problem for the professionalisation of nursing
Stephen Kermode
Associate Professor of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of New England, Northern Rivers Campus, NSW
Abstract
The re-constitution of the Australian labour force has seen the emergence of the organisation as the dominant employment setting. This is the case for professions as well as non-professions. With organisations have come increasingly bureaucratic forms of controlling work. The 'ideal type' which characterises the work of professions is, it would seem, under threat from the organisation, and this has significant implications for nursing.
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