Workforce globalisation, language and discourse : Recruitment of foreign nurses in the UK
<p class="first" id="d1725808e95">The globalisation of the labour market creates new challenges for organisations when hiring. This article addresses one such challenge that is rarely in the spotlight: the implications of the choice of a language pro...
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| author | Andrei Kuznetsov Olga Kuznetsova Jaime Fernández de Simón de la Cruz |
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| description | <p class="first" id="d1725808e95">The globalisation of the labour market creates new challenges for organisations when
hiring. This article addresses one such challenge that is rarely in the spotlight:
the implications of the choice of a language proficiency test for non-native speakers
by the hiring organisation. We use the UK National Health Service (NHS) recruitment
practices as an example. With the help of a staged experiment, this practice-based
study argues that the current international recruitment procedure to the NHS tends
to underestimate some important differences between language as a formalised system
of words and grammatical rules and discourse as ‘language in action’, causing the
loss of staffing capacity. It follows from our analysis that when setting the requirements
and objectives of a language test, the recruiting organisations need to consider more
explicitly the social and cultural context in which their employees operate and the
impact of this context on the communication demands faced by the staff.
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| spelling | doaj.art-473827f57b4342ab90339f60db989d0d2023-05-03T15:43:29ZengPluto JournalsWork Organisation, Labour and Globalisation1745-641X1745-64282022-09-01162405810.13169/workorgalaboglob.16.2.0040Workforce globalisation, language and discourse : Recruitment of foreign nurses in the UKAndrei KuznetsovOlga KuznetsovaJaime Fernández de Simón de la Cruz<p class="first" id="d1725808e95">The globalisation of the labour market creates new challenges for organisations when hiring. This article addresses one such challenge that is rarely in the spotlight: the implications of the choice of a language proficiency test for non-native speakers by the hiring organisation. We use the UK National Health Service (NHS) recruitment practices as an example. With the help of a staged experiment, this practice-based study argues that the current international recruitment procedure to the NHS tends to underestimate some important differences between language as a formalised system of words and grammatical rules and discourse as ‘language in action’, causing the loss of staffing capacity. It follows from our analysis that when setting the requirements and objectives of a language test, the recruiting organisations need to consider more explicitly the social and cultural context in which their employees operate and the impact of this context on the communication demands faced by the staff. </p>https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/workorgalaboglob.16.2.0040 |
| spellingShingle | Andrei Kuznetsov Olga Kuznetsova Jaime Fernández de Simón de la Cruz Workforce globalisation, language and discourse : Recruitment of foreign nurses in the UK Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation |
| title | Workforce globalisation, language and discourse : Recruitment of foreign nurses in the UK |
| title_full | Workforce globalisation, language and discourse : Recruitment of foreign nurses in the UK |
| title_fullStr | Workforce globalisation, language and discourse : Recruitment of foreign nurses in the UK |
| title_full_unstemmed | Workforce globalisation, language and discourse : Recruitment of foreign nurses in the UK |
| title_short | Workforce globalisation, language and discourse : Recruitment of foreign nurses in the UK |
| title_sort | workforce globalisation language and discourse recruitment of foreign nurses in the uk |
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