Physician Collective Bargaining In A U.S. Public Hospital : Antecedents To Organizing

ISBN-13: 9783639189940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 268 str.

Stephen L. Thompson

Opis

This book explores the antecedents to employee physicians at a U.S. Public Hospital seeking to collectively bargain with their employer. The author found that a desire for voice was the number one reason for physicians to desire joining a union, followed by improvement of salaries and working conditions. Union prone physicians had a lower salary on average, felt more dissatisfied with their income, were more likely to feel the effects of work speed up as a result of too many patients, and too little time, less likely to have administrative functions in their job (and consequently a larger patient care role), a strong sense of entitlement to the process of collective bargaining, a belief that unions improve participation in decisions that affect their jobs (reinforcing their number one qualitative reason - voice), and a sense that a union would improve their treatment by supervisors (reinforcing their desire for due process and equity).

O autorze

Stephen L. Thompson, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at National-Louis University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Health Policy and Administration. He has written on collective bargaining and strikes of physicians and privatization of public education.