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Anderson, Pauline and Warhurst, Christopher (2019) Newly professionalised physiotherapists : symbolic or substantive change? Employee Relations, 42 (2). pp. 300-314. doi:10.1108/ER-10-2018-0271 ISSN 0142-5455.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-10-2018-0271
Abstract
Purpose
There is renewed interest in the professions as a range of occupations pursue professionalisation projects. The purpose of this paper is turn analysis to an important omission in current research – the skills deployed in the work of these professions. Such research is necessary because skills determine the formal classification of occupations as a profession.
Design/methodology/approach
Drawing on qualitative research, this paper explores the deployment of skills in work of one newly professionalised occupation in the UK’s National Health Service – physiotherapists.
Findings
The findings point to a disconnect between how this occupation has become a profession (the skills to get the job, and related political manoeuvring by representative bodies) and the mixed outcomes for their skills deployment (the skills to do the job) in work as a profession.
Originality/value
The paper provides missing empirical understanding of change for this new profession, and new conceptualisation of that change as both symbolic and substantive, with a “double hybridity” around occupational control and skill deployment for physiotherapists as a profession.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Physical therapists, Physical therapy -- Vocational guidance , Group identity, Professions -- Great Britain -- Classification | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Employee Relations | ||||||
| Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0142-5455 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 29 November 2019 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 42 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 300-314 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1108/ER-10-2018-0271 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 August 2019 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 January 2020 | ||||||
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