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HR practices and knowledge brokering by hybrid middle managers in hospital settings : the influence of professional hierarchy
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Currie, Graeme, Burgess, Nicola and Hayton, James C. (2015) HR practices and knowledge brokering by hybrid middle managers in hospital settings : the influence of professional hierarchy. Human Resource Management, 54 (4). pp. 793-812. doi:10.1002/hrm.21709 ISSN 0090-4848.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21709
Abstract
Drawing upon the ability-motivation-opportunity (AMO) framework, our study extends understanding of the interaction between human resource (HR) practices and the brokering of knowledge by hybrid middle managers. Examining health care delivered to older people in a hospital setting, our study highlights that hybrid nurse middle managers broker knowledge downward through professional hierarchy to their peer group, but find it difficult to broker knowledge upward. Meanwhile, because they lack legitimacy with doctors, they lack the opportunity to broker knowledge interprofessionally. Hybrid medical middle managers are potentially more able to broker knowledge within their peer group. However, some of lower status intraprofessionally, like nurses, may lack legitimacy and opportunity to do so. Meanwhile, higher-status medical middle managers may lack motivation to engage in knowledge brokering with peers outside their specialism. We suggest that inter- and intraprofessional power and status has important implications for HR practices to support knowledge brokering by hybrid middle managers. Should HR practices fail to support ability, motivation, and opportunity for knowledge brokering across and within professions, then a “broken” rather than “broker” chain may result.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Operations Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Personnel management, Knowledge management, Hospitals -- Personnel management | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Human Resource Management | ||||||
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0090-4848 | ||||||
Official Date: | September 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 54 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 793-812 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1002/hrm.21709 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 December 2015 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 September 2017 | ||||||
Funder: | National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands (CLAHRC WM) | ||||||
Grant number: | NIHR HS&DR 09/1002/05 |
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