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Managers Shaping the Service Triangle

Navigating Resident and Worker Interests Through Work Design in Nursing Homes

Bibliographic Data

ID2362425
AuthorsLander Vermeerbergen (0000-0003-1122-5312, KU Leuven, corresponding author), Aoife M Mcdermott (0000-0002-9195-7435, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK), Jos Benders (0000-0003-1696-144X, KU Leuven)
Year2021
Volume48
Issue1
Pages70-98
Publication date2021-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWork and Occupations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0730-8884 • E-ISSN: 1552-8464
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0730888420930770
OpenAlexW3034666623
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited43

Managers play a key role in shaping the service triangle and navigating stakeholder interests within this. In health care, labor shortages are prompting consideration of the consequences of care delivery for service users and staff. Here, the authors consider how senior nursing home managers tasked with balancing resident and worker interests manage tensions using work design. The findings identify a five-cluster typology, reflecting variations in how managers from 20 Flemish nursing homes operationalize the same resident-centered care model. Managers purposively shape a different service triangle in each operationalization, variously prioritizing benefits for residents, seeking the golden mean, or attempting to suppress tensions

Business · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Economics · Flemish · Health care · Nurse education · Nursing shortage · Operationalization · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Stakeholder · Typology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Medicine · Nursing · Marketing

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Unique citing works7
Citations per year1,4
Citation span2021 - 2026 (6)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 7
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