Workforce Issues in the Greater Boston Health Care Industry: Implications for Work and Family
This working paper synthesizes critical problems identified by interviews with more than 40 leaders in the Boston area health care industry and places them in the context of work and family issues. At present, the defining circumstance for the health care indust...
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| author | Harrington, Mona Bookman, Ann Bailyn, Lotte Kochan, Thomas |
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| description | This working paper synthesizes critical problems identified by interviews with more than 40 leaders in the Boston
area health care industry and places them in the context of work and family issues. At present, the defining
circumstance for the health care industry nationally as well as regionally is an extraordinary reorganization, not yet
fully negotiated, in the provision and financing of health care. Hoped-for controls on increased costs of medical care
have fallen far short of their promise. Pressures to limit expenditures have produced dispiriting conditions for the
entire healthcare workforce. Under such strains, relations between managers and workers providing care are
uneasy.
Five key issues affect a broad cross-section of occupational groups, albeit in different ways: staffing shortages; long
work hours and inflexible schedules; degraded and unsupportive working conditions; lack of opportunities for
training and advancement; professional and employee voices are insufficiently heard. The paper concludes with
possible ways to address such issues. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/73942019-04-10T23:12:15Z Workforce Issues in the Greater Boston Health Care Industry: Implications for Work and Family Harrington, Mona Bookman, Ann Bailyn, Lotte Kochan, Thomas health care work family staffing shortages work schedules This working paper synthesizes critical problems identified by interviews with more than 40 leaders in the Boston area health care industry and places them in the context of work and family issues. At present, the defining circumstance for the health care industry nationally as well as regionally is an extraordinary reorganization, not yet fully negotiated, in the provision and financing of health care. Hoped-for controls on increased costs of medical care have fallen far short of their promise. Pressures to limit expenditures have produced dispiriting conditions for the entire healthcare workforce. Under such strains, relations between managers and workers providing care are uneasy. Five key issues affect a broad cross-section of occupational groups, albeit in different ways: staffing shortages; long work hours and inflexible schedules; degraded and unsupportive working conditions; lack of opportunities for training and advancement; professional and employee voices are insufficiently heard. The paper concludes with possible ways to address such issues. 2004-12-10T19:15:01Z 2004-12-10T19:15:01Z 2004-12-10T19:15:01Z Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7394 en_US MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper;4472-01 144298 bytes application/pdf application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | health care work family staffing shortages work schedules Harrington, Mona Bookman, Ann Bailyn, Lotte Kochan, Thomas Workforce Issues in the Greater Boston Health Care Industry: Implications for Work and Family |
| title | Workforce Issues in the Greater Boston Health Care Industry: Implications for Work and Family |
| title_full | Workforce Issues in the Greater Boston Health Care Industry: Implications for Work and Family |
| title_fullStr | Workforce Issues in the Greater Boston Health Care Industry: Implications for Work and Family |
| title_full_unstemmed | Workforce Issues in the Greater Boston Health Care Industry: Implications for Work and Family |
| title_short | Workforce Issues in the Greater Boston Health Care Industry: Implications for Work and Family |
| title_sort | workforce issues in the greater boston health care industry implications for work and family |
| topic | health care work family staffing shortages work schedules |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7394 |
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