(Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context) 1st Edition
by Tricia Cleland Silva
There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this
workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary
health care. Historically, the global nurse occupation has been
predominately female and segregated along gendered, racialised and
classed hierarchies. In the last decade, new actors have emerged in the
management of health care human resources, specifically from the
corporate sector, which has created new interactions, networks, and
organisational practices.
This book urgently calls for the
reconceptualisation in the theoretical framing of the globalised nurse
occupation from International Human Resource Management (IHRM) to
Transnational Human Resource Management (THRM). Specifically, the book
draws on critical human resource management literature and transnational
feminist theories to frame the strategies and practices used to manage
nurses across geographical sites of knowledge production and power,
which centralise on how and by whom nurses are managed. In its current
managerial form, the author argues that the nurses are constructed and
produced as resources to be packaged for clients in public and private
organisations.