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Empowerment or Enslavement?: Lean Production, Immigrant Women and Service Work in Public Hospitals

Michael O'Donnell School of Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour, University of New South Wales
Pages 73-94 | Published online: 10 Apr 2013

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Zeyad Mahmoud, Nathalie Angelé-Halgand, Kate Churruca, Louise A. Ellis & Jeffrey Braithwaite. (2021) The impact of lean management on frontline healthcare professionals: a scoping review of the literature. BMC Health Services Research 21:1.
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David Peetz. 2019. The Realities and Futures of Work. The Realities and Futures of Work.
Rachel S. Rauvola & Candice L. Thomas. (2019) An ethical role for I-O psychology in Lean management. Industrial and Organizational Psychology 12:3, pages 239-242.
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Gareth H. Rees & Robin Gauld. (2017) Can lean contribute to work intensification in healthcare?. Journal of Health Organization and Management 31:3, pages 369-384.
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Gareth H Rees. (2014) Organisational readiness and Lean Thinking implementation: Findings from three emergency department case studies in New Zealand. Health Services Management Research 27:1-2, pages 1-9.
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Eileen M. Willis. (2010) The Problem of Time in Ethnographic Health Care Research. Qualitative Health Research 20:4, pages 556-564.
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Terry Desombre, Clare Kelliher, Fraser Macfarlane & Mustafa Ozbilgin. (2006) Re-Organizing Work Roles in Health Care: Evidence from the Implementation of Functional Flexibility. British Journal of Management 17:2, pages 139-151.
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Christopher Wright & John Lund. (2006) Variations on a lean theme: work restructuring in retail distribution. New Technology, Work and Employment 21:1, pages 59-74.
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Eileen Willis & Kerryn Weekes. 2005. Workplace Reform in the Healthcare Industry. Workplace Reform in the Healthcare Industry 150 169 .
Michael O’Donnell, Cameron Allan & David Peetz. (2023) The New Public Management and Workplace Change. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 12:1, pages 85-103.
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Russell D. Lansbury & Duncan K. Macdonald. 2001. Strategic Choices in Reforming Public Service Employment. Strategic Choices in Reforming Public Service Employment 216 242 .
Cameron Allan, Michael O'Donnell & David Peetz. (2016) More Tasks, Less Secure, Working Harder: Three Dimensions of Labour Utilisation. Journal of Industrial Relations 41:4, pages 519-535.
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Linley C. Hartmann & Margaret Patrickson. (1998) Individual decision making: implications for decision training in TQM. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 15:6, pages 619-633.
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