Powerless positions, silenced voices? – critical views on health and social care management
Journal of Health Organization and Management
ISSN: 1477-7266
Article publication date: 9 September 2014
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide background to this special issue and consider how critically oriented research can be applied to health and social care management.
Design/methodology/approach
Basic principles of critical management studies are introduced briefly to frame subsequent papers in this issue.
Findings
In order to identify the wicked problems and darker sides of the care field, there is a need to study things in alternative ways through critical lenses. Giving a voice to those in less powerful positions may result in redefinition and redesign of conventional roles and agency of patients, volunteers and professionals and call into question the taken-for-granted understanding of health and social care management.
Originality/value
The special issue as a whole was designed to enhance critical approaches to the discussion in the field of health and social care. This editorial hopefully raises awareness of CMS and serves as an opening for further discussion on critical views in the research on management and organization in this field.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the participants for their contributions in the conference stream “Critical views on health care management”, held in Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, UK, in July 2013.
Citation
Hujala, A., Laulainen, S. and Lindberg, K. (2014), "Powerless positions, silenced voices? – critical views on health and social care management", Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol. 28 No. 5, pp. 590-601. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-06-2014-0106
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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