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The pain of redundancy: An Exploration of the Impact of Redundancy for Nurse Managers in Victoria in the 1990s
Marilyn Richardson
Lecturer, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, VIC
Dianne Temby
Lecturer, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC
Abstract
This article reports on research conducted in 1995 in Victoria, Australia with 12 nurse managers who were displaced through redundancy. This was a pilot study that employed a phenomenological approach to explore the personal impact of redundancy. Participants experienced three differing approaches to the redundancy processes undertaken. Data was managed by a thematic analysis. Powerful themes of being isolated in their agony and fear, of consent under duress, and trauma, emerged from the data. This paper tells the story graphically and emotionally, it is the people's story, an eloquent example of what is missed in current literature.
Keywords
phenomenology, redundancy, nursing, management
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